Company for Henry

The Purloined Paperweight (U.S.)

A novel

When Henry Paradene invites a very distant relative from America, he does so with the hope of selling his white elephant of a house. But he reckons without the latter's passion for paperweights, a nephew with get rich quick schemes, a lovely niece with two suitors and a broker's man on the way.

Publishing Information

UK:	1967 Herbert Jenkins
	1980 Penguin (used here)
US:	1967 Simon & Schuster as The Purloined Paperweight

Also published in the Star Weekly of Toronto, Canada, abridged in 24 pages over two issues (29 April - 6 May 1967) as The Purloined Paperweight.

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A late classic although it seems to end a little early, not just because it's on the short side but as if there's something more to say that isn't said.