Scorpion on the Ceiling: A Scottish Colonial Family in South East Asia    by Roderick Martine
Price: $7.99 USD. 69690 words. Published by North Highland Publishing  on March 3, 2012. Nonfiction.
Charles Martine arrive in Singapore in 1922 to work for the Borneo Company, one of the great UK-financed merchant venture companies of South East Asia. It was a golden era, with Singapore becoming one of the most successful multi-racial co-operatives that have ever been known. Later on, Charles and his wife Pat were stationed in Penang, where their two daughters were born.