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A PORTERHOUSE CHRONICLE
It is crisis time again at Porterhouse, where crises never come in singles. The formidable SkuUion is showing signs of frailty - he tends to have difficulty with his second case of Hardy's twenty-year-old Special of an evening - and the tricky business of appointing a new Master has to begin again. Meanwhile the college's monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American seems determined to make a television film on the premises. And if there is trouble ahead there is also trouble behind: the widow ofthe previous Master is convinced her husband was murdered, and - at a price - she plants an agent into the Senior Common Room to dig up an unpleasant truth that everyone else would much rather leave under the carpet.
The instinct of the true Porterhouse man faced with a crisis is to reach for the bottle. Then to fall back on the subtle tactical skills honed at Cambridge down the centuries - blackmaü and kidnap for choice. But wiU these be... Tovább

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OffiSTEB^
A PORTERHOUSE CHRONICLE
It is crisis time again at Porterhouse, where crises never come in singles. The formidable SkuUion is showing signs of frailty - he tends to have difficulty with his second case of Hardy's twenty-year-old Special of an evening - and the tricky business of appointing a new Master has to begin again. Meanwhile the college's monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American seems determined to make a television film on the premises. And if there is trouble ahead there is also trouble behind: the widow ofthe previous Master is convinced her husband was murdered, and - at a price - she plants an agent into the Senior Common Room to dig up an unpleasant truth that everyone else would much rather leave under the carpet.
The instinct of the true Porterhouse man faced with a crisis is to reach for the bottle. Then to fall back on the subtle tactical skills honed at Cambridge down the centuries - blackmaü and kidnap for choice. But wiU these be enough? Menaced on all sides - by the collapse of the Chapel, by the tentacles of organized crime (and a finger or two closer to home) and by the hovering threat ofthe abominable Dog's Nose Man - wiU Porterhouse be forced to unleash the most fearsome weapon in its armoury, the college food?
'TOM SHARPE SERVES UP THE LOUDEST LAUGHS IN LITERARY COMEDY HE IS THE GP^AT POST-WAUGH HUMORIST' Mail on Sunday
Cover illustration; John Holder. Cover design: Button Design Co. Vissza