John and Ezra Girdlestone, father and son, run a British merchant company trading to the African coast with several sailing ships, all dangerously ill-maintained. Their small office is in London, their business is quite personally run, and the firm and its owners are well respected in the City by the 1870s.
- John Girdlestone is deeply and ostentatiously religious, to the cynical amazement of his son.
- The senior Girdlestone also is the tightly-controlling guardian of an heiress not quite of age, Kate Harston.
- This young lady is a cousin of Tom Dimsdale, college-age son of a physician.
- The story is filled with a fun, varied cast.
- These families and their impingement are at the center of A.
- Conan Doyles psychological-adventure novel The Firm of Girdlestone.
Besides John, Ezra, and Kate, theres Captain Miggs, Major Tobias Clutterbuck, and the Dimsdale family.
📘 The Firm of Girdlestone
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