Return To Inverness
Plot. Lady Jowls, Jack's aunt, has left him her estate of Inverness in her will, on the condition that he allow all the house guests and other residents to live on the ...
Lady Jowls, Jack's aunt, has left him her estate of Inverness in her will, on the condition that he allow all the house guests and other residents to live on the estate as long as they wish to remain. Jack must deal with not only the eccentric residents, but also a powerful invisible energy emanating from the ruined temple on the estate grounds which is causing the house and grounds to vibrate. To complicate matters, there is a trickster loose in the hollow walls, who removes objects and replaces them with something else; Jack loses the clothing he brought with him and Lady Pompon her favorite teapot, but they receive in return what appears to be Lord Jowls' clothing from the 1920s and a foot locker full of fake feet. Jack calls upon Mojo Sam the Youdou man to help stop the mysterious force from shaking Inverness apart, while he helps Little Frieda complete her nearly 30 year long mission to collect all of Saint Sey's bones from within the only occasionally visible Fourth Tower.
Description and Characters
This series does include some of the Sufi proverbs and lore which appear in previous Jack Flanders series, but also much of the humor.
There are some characters from previous adventures, aside from Jack: Madonna Vampyra, Old Far Seeing Art and Wham Bam Shazam, back from a stint at the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris; Chief Wampum and Doctor Mazoola play important roles behind the scenes. Characters new to this series include Madame Trunknose, who talks to crows, Lady Pompon and her niece Evie, who are working on Lady Pompon's memoirs, the Mask Maker who carves masks and hollows out a giant mushroom to create a cottage, and an operatic diva, Madama Moltopazzo, who discovers that the spaces within the walls form a marvelous concert chamber.
Robert Lorick: Jack Flanders: Kirby Airs: Narrator, Dr. Mazoola: Sarah Braveman: Lady Pompon: P J Orte: Little Frieda: Eva Dolan: Evie, Poodles: Ida Faiella: Madama Maltzo Paltzo
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RIP Jack Flanders! I just learned that Robert Lorick passed away in January. ZBS is planning some sort of tribute to Jack, set in Inverness, release date TBA.
Big thank you. I remember laying in bed late night and listening in the dark on my headphones to Jack Flanders on my local PBS station. Good times. I remember the Canticle of Liebowitz (sp?) too. I listened to that again recently also.
Jack Flanders is one of my favorites too. -------------------------------- R
Jack Flanders, one of my very favorites!!!
Thank you for posting this!