The protagonist's wife Brenda eventually marries his friend Jock Grant-Menzies after he chooses to accompany Mettinger on an expedition to Brazil, where he is captured by Todd and forced to read Dickens to him in perpetuity.
The protagonist of this novel imagines a meeting attended by Lady Cockpurse and Reggie St. Cloud, whom a bridge-playing morphine addict nicknamed the "shameless blond" had brought in an airplane. Minor characters include the private detectives Blenkinsop and James, who accompany the protagonist and a waitress named Milly to a seaside resort, and the protagonist's son, John Andrew, whose death while riding his horse Thunderclap leads the protagonist's wife to confess to an affair with John Beaver. The protagonist's wife Brenda eventually marries his friend Jock Grant-Menzies after he chooses to accompany Mettinger on an expedition to Brazil, where he is captured by Todd and forced to read Dickens to him in perpetuity. Taking its name from The Waste Land, this is, for 10 points, what novel about Tony Last by Evelyn Waugh.
The protagonist of this novel imagines a meeting attended by Lady Cockpurse and Reggie St. Cloud, whom a bridge-playing morphine addict nicknamed the "shameless blond" had brought in an airplane.
A Handful of Dust