Eager young private investigator Twyford Fripp (the unfortunate first name being connected with his father's trade as a lavatory salesman, as he apologetically tells everyone unless they can shut him up first) has just taken on his first case. He is asked to find Margot, the wife of Retired Rear-Admiral Peter Legg, who has fled him and his insatiable desire for his wifely comforts, or rumpy-pumpy as he puts it, and persuade her to return home. She has gone to Perranpoppen, Cornwall, to stay with her old female friend, Pauline Grizzner, a public school secretary helping the headmaster to prepare for a royal visit to mark the opening of the school's new sports ...  Read the complete review