Maurice Jones

The lectures contained in this volume were prepared for the "Training School for Clergy and Sunday School Teachers," organized by the Oxford Diocesan Sunday School Association, and held at Wangate in September 1919 and 1920; and were also utilized as course of twenty-four lectures given to a Church Tutorial Class at Reading in the winter of 1919-20.

Deceased they might be, but in Ludo Scully's head the famous dead could turn into nice little earners by agreeing to endorse companies. How to chat to the dead, though? Step forward God, universally accepted by believers as all powerful and so able to natter with the dead and the living at will. But who on earth could God relay the dead's lucrative endorsement messages to? Enter money-grubbing Arnold Ratledge, heavily persuaded by Scully to re-invent himself as the world's Fourth Prophet with a direct line to God. Dead Wringers, the final book in the Ratskull Trilogy, not only takes modern satire to new levels, but has a riveting plot line, stuffed with fascinating research. Humour, suspense, great originality and astonishing facts, what's not to like.

Tired of red tape tying up his cut-price care homes in Thailand, failed union demagogue Arnie Ratledge takes to the high seas. Launching hugely cost effective care-home ships for the elderly, he cunningly taps into the fashion for green energy, and takes it one stage further: milking what little energy the old have left. And when they die, there's A Drop in the Ocean for each corpse. Even the fish are happy with the whole cheap-as-chips operation. With his trademark ground-breaking humour, Maurice Jones strips bare the madness at the heart of 21st century fads while giving political correctness a mighty shove towards the dustbin of history.