Trustee from the Toolroom by Neville Shute

Trustee from the Toolroom by Neville Shute published 1950 sailor with a model - though not quite the right kind Always trust the word of Clothes in Books commentators. I would never have read this book without them – I have enjoyed some Neville Shute, but the descriptions of this one sound rather off-putting. The matter arose in the comments on this post Heyho for Smugglers’ Rest But I believed in the blogfriends and here we are. Also – nobody’s fault but mine – I kept hearing it in my head as ‘Trustie from the Toolroom’ – a well-behaved prisoner in a rehab workshop facility in jail. Well it’s not that. It tells the story of an ordinary man, living a quiet life in London, getting involved in adventures and a treasure hunt, for a reason you would never guess. His sister and brother-in-law die at sea while going on an extended voyage: Keith and his wife Katie are left with the daughter, Janice, whom they were looking after when the sailors departed. John, the dead relation, turns out to…