Another overlooked book; "Wickford Point", by J.P. Marquand, author of "The Late George Apley" and the Mr. Moto mystery series. This concerns another old New England family of the Apley sort but much more eccentric --their claim to the intellectual aristocracy is that the founder of the family was a fairly undistinguished Transcendentalist on his own but He Knew Thoreau. The central female personality is Bella Brill, characterised as "the champion cigarette bummer of all time".