Sharing a house with human beings is rarely a good idea. As Thomas Kirby-Jones discovers, it can even lead to a spot of mass-murder.
Thomas Kirby-Jones has been avoiding adult life very successfully since he finished university. But real life has finally caught up with him, and it’s time to get a job, grow up and make some important decisions. So he avoids them all by moving into the majestic 49 Carnagie Close with his sister and her four well-intentioned friends, who convince him that it will be a hippie idyll of intelligent, considerate, like-minded people living in harmonious civility. Of course it all goes wrong, just as his friends warn him it will.
There has to be a simple solution to the mess his life has become within six months. Perhaps he could get rid of the guests who won’t leave, or the rats, or the six competing music systems. Napalm might quell the garden and a chemical weapon might clean the bathrooms. If really pushed, he could even do the washing up. But that’s not Tom’s style, and he’s quite sure it will only take a little ingenuity to kill his housemates instead.