![]() Jeffrey took on his first West End role, playing the part of the accused. ![]() ![]() It’s a courtroom drama with a twist the audience acts as the jury, and decide which of two different endings the play should have – guilty or innocent. Jeffrey’s third play, The Accused, published by Methuen in October 2000, starred Edward Petherbridge, Michael Feast and Tony Britton. His second novel, Shall We Tell the President?, published in 1977, was a fast moving thriller about a plot to assassinate Edward Kennedy while he was President of the United States, later up-dated by the author substituting Florentyna Kane, from The Prodigal Daughter, for Edward Kennedy. It was also made into a successful serial for BBC Radio 4, and was later televised in 1990 by the BBC. Written at the home of his former Oxford Principal, it was taken up by the Literary Agent, Debbie Owen, and sold to 17 countries within a year. Aged 34, and determined to repay his creditors in full, he sat down to write his first novel Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less. ![]() On the brink of bankruptcy, he resigned from the House of Commons. Jeffrey served five years as an MP, but after investing heavily in a Canadian company called Aquablast on the advice of the Bank of Boston, when the company went into liquidation (and three directors were later sent to jail for fraud), he was left with debts of £427,727. In 1976, Jeffrey and Mary were married in Oxford. ![]()
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