The Tenth Man  by W Somerset Maugham

First published in the year 1913, the present book ‘The Tenth Man’ is a play by British playwright, novelist and short story writer W Somerset Maugham. Play’s protagonist George Winters is a self-made man, a wealthy unscrupulous businessman and M.P. for Middlepool who has married into the impoverished nobility for reasons of status. But when his wife threatens to divorce him in public immediately before a general election, a scandal threatens that could endanger his latest bit of shady dealing.