FILTH = Failed in London, Try Hong Kong Old Filth is actually quite respectable and not at all filthy. Book opens with 80 year-old Old Filth (Edward Feathers) back in England. He was a lawyer, then judge, in Hong Kong. Wife is dead; no children. He lives in a semi-remote area in Dorset, England, so it is amazing when, Terry Veneering, an old enemy from Hong Kong moves next door. The two do not speak for years. Filth, in a snowstorm, locks himself out of his home and finds himself obliged to go to Veneering for help. Surprisingly to both, they hit it off and arrange to meet again. Kotakinakulu Edward as boy. Mother dies in childbirth. Remote father turns him over to Malays to be raised. Abruptly wrenched from Malayasia and returned to England at 4 1/2. At 8, a stammerer, he is off to prep school in Wales. "Sir," his teacher, is all life and good spirits. A modern teacher; learning as pleasure. He meets Ingoldby. The Donheads Another flashback, but to a mo