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Captain Bennett's Folly
Year
2015
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
The Permanent Press
Summary
Captain Bennett's Folly is a direct descendant of Fleming's earlier comic novels, Colonel Effingham's Raid and Lucinderella. Like them, there is a narrator - in this case Walker Williams - who reports an adventure replete with rogues and innocents, while making an artful, funny and wistful case about the immorality of our times. Walker spins out a tale of how he and his hedonistic family journey to the Florida Keys during the hurricane season in order to prevent rich Uncle Nolan Bennett - "pushing eighty but not pushing very hard" - from marrying his young housekeeper and supplanting them as his legitimate heirs. The scheming relatives, however, have a tough adversary in the eccentric Uncle Nolan, and his struggles to escape from their manipulation are at the core of Fleming's yarn.