Confessions of a Crap Artist

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Jack Isidore was tyre regroover by trade, but his true vocation lay in collecting items of amazing information (did you know that that the Saragasso Sea <i>actually exists?</i> that the Japanese <i>are not really human beings?</i>) and observing the behaviour of those around him from a detached, 'scientific' viewpoint. His sister's husband had described Jack as a crap artist, but when he found himself homeless, Fay let him move into their luxury ranch house in Marin County, California. There Jack was able to play with the children — and bring his analytical turn of mind to bear on Fay's strange marriage to foul-mouthed factory owner Charley Hume... Front cover illustration by Ean Taylor