Later that night, unsurprisingly, he becomes violently ill and eventually he succumbs to poisoning. The only one who enjoys them is Poulter, who happily gobbles most of them up. Yet this time around disaster strikes as the guests find them to be incredibly bitter tasting and everyone politely declines to eat them. But what was it? And will Basil’s eye be drawn to the younger prettier woman?įanny always makes lobster patties for her parties and this party is no different.
Why does Laura want to marry someone like Kit? Basil, Fanny’s husband, remembers Laura as one of his ex-university students and recalls that there was something peculiar about her. At the cocktail party to be held in her honour, Fanny is also inviting various locals, (not all of whom get on well with each other), as well as Sir Peter Poulter, a wealthy newspaper magnate and her novelist friend Clare Forwood, (who for undisclosed reasons is keen to meet Poulter. Fanny Lynam is stressing about the arrival of her half-brother, Kit’s, fiancée Laura Greenslade, who is turning up next weekend.
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