Lion in the Cellar

Other than her Uncle George Sukie was the only member of the notorious Heap family who was still at large. Her great-grandfather who had invented a particularly nasty machine gun was immortalised in wax at Madame Tussaud''s Chamber of Horrors. So was Sukie''s grandmother who one day had taken an axe and disposed of five of her neighbours. Sukie''s mother later tried her hand at arson and was sent to a mental institution. Sukie defiantly explained as had her mother before her that insanity did not run in the family. The Heaps were definitely being maligned. But naturally when Mr Bentley turned up dead with a bloody axe at his side Sukie''s husband figured she was at last taking up the family trade''A charnel-house frolic'' The Spectator