There are some disreputable characters in Malicious Damage.
Kendall Blumenthal Paul Eddington) is an older businessman with a much younger and disreputable wife Diana. She has been carrying on with a young artist Nick Adams.
Kendall catches his wife posing nude for Adams and he destroys the painting.
Adams later sues for £5000. He claims that Diana had commissioned him for that painting.
Harriet Peterson represents Adams but he has no record of selling paintings for those kind of prices before.
Maybe Diana and Adams were in cahoots to extort money out of her husband so they can spend money at his expense.
Meanwhile Harriet is moving to a new flat in London. It is near her chambers but it also needs a lot of work doing.
Her new neighbour is a young mother Jenny Pargeter who also happens to know both Diana and Adams.
You care little about the characters who are using each other. Even Jenny uses Harriet someone she hardly knows to do some babysitting.
I did wonder when Adams played hardball as to how he managed to afford the litigation. He told Harriet he only sold his paintings to make ends meet.
Paul Eddington had trouble with his East European/Jewish accent.
Kendall Blumenthal Paul Eddington) is an older businessman with a much younger and disreputable wife Diana. She has been carrying on with a young artist Nick Adams.
Kendall catches his wife posing nude for Adams and he destroys the painting.
Adams later sues for £5000. He claims that Diana had commissioned him for that painting.
Harriet Peterson represents Adams but he has no record of selling paintings for those kind of prices before.
Maybe Diana and Adams were in cahoots to extort money out of her husband so they can spend money at his expense.
Meanwhile Harriet is moving to a new flat in London. It is near her chambers but it also needs a lot of work doing.
Her new neighbour is a young mother Jenny Pargeter who also happens to know both Diana and Adams.
You care little about the characters who are using each other. Even Jenny uses Harriet someone she hardly knows to do some babysitting.
I did wonder when Adams played hardball as to how he managed to afford the litigation. He told Harriet he only sold his paintings to make ends meet.
Paul Eddington had trouble with his East European/Jewish accent.