Hippopotamus

Ted Wallace is a sour, old, cantankerous beast, a womanising and whisky-sodden bounder of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too.

Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months'' repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan.

But strange things ha...