Family Affair

When Bill's engineering firm, William R. Davis Construction, is repeatedly, and suspiciously closely, underbid by the same competitor, it is suggested to him that the competitor, Henry and Associates (sounds more like a law firm!), may be bugging Bill's office. Bill does not want to believe it, but a scan with a radio frequency indicator confirms what he did not want to believe. Meanwhile, the twins have a new friend, Norman (I was under the impression that Norman is the son of Bill's unscrupulous competitor, though it isn't made clear), who likes playing with tape recorders. He also likes bugging people's private conversations, and gets the twins interested in it too, until they're caught by Bill and Mr. French, and Bill lays down the law. Norman, however, learned it from his father, who employs it as a business practice. When the same man who found the bug in Bill's office tries to sell him some bugging equipment, Bill, a man of integrity, says he'd sooner go out of business than stoop to such deviousness. Norman pays another visit to the Davis apartment and, against Bill's and the twins' wishes, plays a conversation he secretly taped of his parents. Norman no longer thinks it's funny when he hears his parents talk about getting divorced.



It's refreshing to see a successful businessman with the moral scruples and integrity of Bill Davis, even if it is only fiction