Past Imperfect

　　本書入選為英國「理察與茱蒂」讀書俱樂部的2009年夏季選書名單

　　Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern: who should inherit his fortune...

　　PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Barker wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time he married in his late thirties he was sterile (the result of adult mumps), but what about before that unfortunate illness? He was not a virgin. Had he sired a child? A letter from a girlfriend from these times suggests he did. But the letter is anonymous.

　　Damian contacts someone he knew from their days at university. He gives him a list of girls he slept with and sets him a task: find his heir...