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Francis's only friends are his uncle Demetrius, whose affair with a divorc e has made him the black sheep of the family, and Jimmy Waring, a disgraced ex-schoolmaster and the brother of Demetrius's mistress. As Francis finds himself unwittingly caught up in the intrigues of these two men, a chain of events is set in motion leading to sex, scandal, blackmail, and death . . . and the elimination of at least one name from the 'Book of Life'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An unjustly neglected novelist, C.H.B. Kitchin (1895-1967) was best known for his early mystery novels and was frustrated later in life when he continued to turn out minor masterpieces like \u003ci\u003eTen Pollitt Place\u003c\/i\u003e (1957) and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), which won critical acclaim but were largely overlooked by the book-buying public. 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