man wants to take a second wife while the town is still busily commemorating his departed first that is Andrew Mackerel's predicament in a nutshell. For the sake of appearances, that is, of plain good taste, the lovers meet in dim bars and seedy hotels in the disreputable quarter of town. There is another woman in the case, the late celebrity's sister, who also helps keep the late Ida May's memory green-just as green as need be to box the would-be lovers in for a decisive war of nerves. The result is one of the most hilarious triangles in modern fiction. |