06 - Shambhala

Today, Leroy Fingal, principal operative at the Cave Estate Agency, is busy preparing for the various clients who are visiting in the wake of Malvolio Claxendell’s investment in the area. Samuel Quinine is the first to arrive, together with his son, Lustral (a very quiet scholar, researching medieval Magyar Literature), his daughter-in-law, Sonia (designer of trendy ‘supportwear’ for the fashion-conscious over eighties), grandson and infant genius, Kolya, and the lodger, Leporello Swinson. He takes them to three properties, two of which are (in the words of Sonia) worse than falling down. The third however is  generally considered to be a veritable Shangri La. They agree that this is the place.