Neat little quirky tales with stings in their tails, some just for fun and others to make you think. In this volume: Hard Labour; The Bully Of The Cavendish; The Peacemaker; A Tiger’s Skin; Three At Table; A Black Affair; A Case Of Desertion; The Rival Beauties; Smoked Skipper; An Intervention; The Lost Ship; The Persecution Of Bob Pretty; Odd Charges; His Lordship; In The Family. From the author of The Monkey’s Paw.