Buried on Sunday

L.J. Rouse was a freelance writer in Toronto.

Montreal lawyer Geoffry Chadwick, who has been jockeyed into spending a long weekend at the summer home of a married lady friend, expects no better and no worse than to spend three days of bucolic boredom; but the results are anything other than boring. His unknown host proves to be his own ex-lover; and the fellow guest with whom he is to share a bathroom is “the biggest roundheel ever to come down the pike.” And that’s only the beginning.

The ill-assorted weekend group, including several visiting neighbours, are held hostage at gunpoint by a trio of escaped bank robbers. The situation is dangerous, and growing more so by the minute ....

This second novel to feature Geoffry Chadwick (the first, Sunday’s Child) isan off-beat excursion into the mind and social whirl of an urbane and cultivated homosexual, as well as a witty, unexpected country weekend gone mad. In Geoffry’s own words, “the Plouffes visit Dallas.”