Howard Saxby, literary agent, senior member of Howard Saxby & Sons, father of Howard Saxby Jr. A long, thin old gentlemen in his middle seventies, the leading gargoyle of the Demosthenes Club. Fishy-eyed and absent-minded, knits to keep himself from smoking. Agent for Beefy Bastable's Cocktail Time in Cocktail Time. Leila Yorke's literary agent in Ice in the Bedroom.

• Cocktail Time.
• Ice in the Bedroom.