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This is Eleanor Berry's fifteenth book. A mother and her three sons are professional London East End gangsters carrying out contract killings. The most active of all, is the youngest boy Eddy Vernon. He is an expert shot but is indescribably stupid. HIs mother orders him to shoot dead Ben Earnshaw, the flashy, goodlooking soldier lover of a boring tycoon's buxom, tarty wife. Vernon fails to point his revolver in the right direction and leaves tumultuous havoc in his wake. Terrified of his two violent elder brothers, Vernon flees to Dublin where he tries his luck in the funeral business, but fails because he is always drunk and unable to hold his bile. The book opens with a description of Vernon swigging whisky in a church whilst attending his mother's funeral. He receives a mobile phone call during the hymn From Greeland's Icy Mountain and is told something he definitely does not wish to hear. Oblivious of his sanctified surroundings, he responds with screaming hysteria. "Sounds a grim tale, but it's a right barrel of cockney laughs from start to finish" said a cheerful old cockney with a monkey on his shoulder.
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This is Eleanor Berry's fifteen book. A mother and her three sons are professional London East End gangsters carrying out contract killings. The most active of all, is the youngest boy, Eddy Vernon. He is an expert shot but is indescribably stupid. His mother orders him to shoot dead Ben Earnshaw, the flashy, good looking soldier lover of a boring tycoon's buxom, tarty wife. Vernon fails to point his revolver in the right direction and leaves tumultuous havoc in his wake. Terrified of his two violent older brothers Vernon flees to Dublin where he tries his luck in the funeral business, but fails because he is always drunk and unable to hold his bile. The book opens with a description of Vernon swigging whisky in a church while attending his mother's funeral. He receives a mobile phone call during the hymn From Greenland's Icy Mountains, and is told something he definitely does not want to hear. Oblivious of his sanctified surroundings, he responds with screaming hysteria.
Sounds a grim tale, but it's a right barrel of laughs from start to finish," said a cheerful old cockney with a monkey on his shoulder.
