Fablon

Fablon Investments cash injection over eight years was pulled in 2002 after less than two years.

Right: Add depth and elegance to plain painted walls with a Fablon peel and stick border.

Upon this particular morning, however, the monotone decor was overwhelmed by an incongruous and highly coloured object which stood upon the Fablon table-top in Omally's dining-room.

'Zelda' Fablon Laminate for Kitchen Doors by Forbo-CP, £9.99 a roll - sufficient for approximately four 500mm kitchen base units.

The plot is typically convoluted: the jilted boyfriend of wealthy Virginia Fablon hires Lew Archer to investigate the background of her inamorata, one Felix Cervantes, presently her husband.

In this respect the book owes much of its vision to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), and it is no accident that Fitzgerald is mentioned once in the text itself: Cervantes and Virginia Fablon share something of Gatsby and Daisy Fay Buchanan.