Scoundrel Paperback – 10 Mar. 1988 by Peter Elstob (Author)

Used. good condition

Sometimes I compare my life to a game of Snakes and Ladders. Time after time I make my way steadily towards the winning square, only to land on the head of a snake.
That's what happened two days ago. The dice landed me on a square which read YOU ARE ARRESTED-RETURN TO BOTTOM LINE and I was whisked from a comfortable apartment to a small, scruffy cell.
Colonel Ronald Rokesby-Gore s the name. At least, it's the name inscribed on this cigarette case. I am a professional scoundrel.
My victims are middle-aged women-though victim seems rather a strong word, since I strive to give value for money- and unless I can find one within 24 hours, the game s up . . .
Highly readable ... It is, in a way, the test of a novel that the characters in it should be so much alive that you can imagine them in another setting. In this respect, Mr Elstob s rather endearing bounder comes nastily off the page
YORKSHIRE POST
An amoral and highly entertaining career ... Peter Elstob handles the farce of his pathetic hero's manoeuvres with cynical good humour'
IRISH TIMES