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Zany, madcap events transpire at the Reverend Lionel Toop''s vicarage in Merton-cum-Middlewick. The plot revolves around Lionel''s wife, Penelope, who dabbles in a football pool with the help of their maid, Ida, and Ida''s suitor, the droll Willie Briggs. The most fantastic complications ensue when the triumvirate wins, or when they think they have won, more than 20,000 English pounds. Lending richly comic hands are the old maid parishioner, Miss Skillon, and Penelope''s out-of-this-world uncle, The Bishop of Lax.3 women, 4 men

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      Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
      Publication Date: 10/13/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780573013492, 978-0573013492
      ISBN10: 0573013497

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      Book Synopsis
      Zany, madcap events transpire at the Reverend Lionel Toop''s vicarage in Merton-cum-Middlewick. The plot revolves around Lionel''s wife, Penelope, who dabbles in a football pool with the help of their maid, Ida, and Ida''s suitor, the droll Willie Briggs. The most fantastic complications ensue when the triumvirate wins, or when they think they have won, more than 20,000 English pounds. Lending richly comic hands are the old maid parishioner, Miss Skillon, and Penelope''s out-of-this-world uncle, The Bishop of Lax.3 women, 4 men

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