Word: hazeldon
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Stranded far from town, Stephen Coryat, a writer, accepts a gracious offer to spend the night at the House of Gair, a thrifty Scottish version of Manderley, of Rebecca fame. His host turns out to be an Edwardian dandy of 77 named Hazeldon Crome, who had himself written a novel in the '90s called A Quiet Day in Old Cockaigne. Crome charms Stephen completely with his milk & whisky pick-me-ups, his billiard game, and his nostalgic reveries on the days of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley...
...while Crome has been spinning a web around Stephen and his upcoming inheritance. Before the fly outwits the spider, drawing-room comedy gives way to drugstore melodrama, and no one is left to shed a tear for Hazeldon Crome except readers who cherish a well-turned rogue...
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