When Clifford Flush founded the Asterisk Club, he did it out
of purely altruistic reasons. It was a service that society desperately needed,
and Flush was willing to provide it. You see, the Asterisk Club is the most
exclusive club in London, and possibly the world: in order to join, you need to
be a wrongly-acquitted murderer. The current Club members include such
colourful people as Mrs. Naomi Barratt (a self-made widow) and The Creaker, an
enormous man who frightens even the other Club members. Rounding out the cast
of murderers is the butler, Beecher – not a murderer himself, but he has been
jailed 14 times for housebreaking.
Next door to the Asterisk Club live Peter and Fan Hilford
and Bertha and Hugo Berko. They share the lease on the house and
have a bit of a rat problem. The Asterisk Club is full up for rooms right now, and so the Club sends its newest potential recruit, Benji Cann, next door as a paying lodger. What could possibly go wrong? Well, let’s just say that Mr. Cann will not become a member of the Club after all, now that he’s deceased.
have a bit of a rat problem. The Asterisk Club is full up for rooms right now, and so the Club sends its newest potential recruit, Benji Cann, next door as a paying lodger. What could possibly go wrong? Well, let’s just say that Mr. Cann will not become a member of the Club after all, now that he’s deceased.
