Rural Ontario, 1906. A missing inheritance. Two missing salesmen. Train wrecks. Fraud. Miserly farmers. Crime, murder and incest. Suicide. Fog. Arson, brawls, blizzards, tramps, alcoholism and insanity. And love. It’s all in the cards for latimer Davenport, an inept son of the Toronto establishment, sent out to do farm labour and learn about life the hard way. A gothic black comedy in dramatic form.
Hugh Graham of Canada is a screenwriter and journalist and has published previously in Exile and in The New Quarterly. He wrote the screenplay for Palais Royale, and was story editor on the Sci-Fi thriller Cube. Graham has received Peabody and ACTRA awards for his radio comedy. He is presently a contributor to The Walrus Magazine and is the author of the play Where the Sun Don’t Shine, and Ploughing the Seas, an account of CIA operations during the Nicaraguan civil war.