| Description |
vii, 280 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
A selection of the author's stories, sketches and anecdotes. |
| Contents |
"Get down, you fool!" -- Miss Kitty takes to the road -- Required reading for meatless days -- Story of a refugee -- Sage of Fountain Inn -- A soldier of the king -- House that Jack built -- Old, the young, and the ageless -- A Green Mountain boy -- Annie Sullivan Macy -- Rose Field -- George the ingenuous -- Judge's last opinion -- Five classic crimes -- Hall-Mills Case -- Hauptmann Case -- Snyder-Gray Case -- Elwell Case -- Case of the ragged stranger -- Archer-Shee Case -- Quite immaterial -- That affair at Penge -- Miscellany: -- "Life was worth living" -- Face in the crowd -- Exeunt murderers, hastily -- Breaks -- Hoof-beats on a bridge -- Last thing Schubert wrote -- Baker Street Irregulars -- I might just as well have played hooky -- Dear friends and gentle hearts -- Cocaud -- A Christmas story -- Jane Austen -- Housman -- "Our greatest woman" or screen credit for Emily -- Barrie -- Gift suggestion -- Experiment in autobiography -- Not for just a day -- What the doctor ordered -- Mr. Wilder urges us on -- Perfectly gone -- Luck of Johnny Mills -- Quite a proposition. |
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