The Midden - Tom Sharpe

Timothy Bright doesn't exactly live up to his name. He is the not-very-acute scion of a successful family -- that is, until Timothy has his funds cut off. This sad turn of affairs gives him the desire -- although unfortunately not the brains -- to get rich on his own. In his devil-may-care way, Tom Sharpe subjects his poor hero to run-ins with the Chief Constable, his wife, her alluring and jealous lesbian lover -- and Miss Marjorie Midden. All converge at the manor house Middenhall, nicknamed "The Midden," in a frenetic finale with, among other things, policemen disguised as sheep and a mad aunt in a silver cat suit.