The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

Jedrington Secret-Past teams up with a charming new business partner, but is Harmswell Grimstone all he seems, or is he actually massively evil? And what is the awful secret behind the cryptic letter that has disturbed Jedringtons wife Conceptiva so greatly that she has made her way to End-It-All Dock? As the Secret-Past familys fortunes rise and rise it turns out that the foundations of their happiness are far from sound.

Reduced to poverty and gin addiction Jedrington is at his lowest ebb, until his loyal and true servant Servegood restores him to sobriety by the gentle application of a massive cudgel. Reunited with Conceptiva, the two take the evil Mr Harmswell Grimstone to court to demand the return of the business and their daughter. But when the judge turns out to be Grimstones uncle the case seems hopeless. Just when all seems lost, the family find the solution in the most unlikely place.