The New Collected Short Stories (To Cut a Long Story Short; Cat O' Nine Tales; And Thereby Hangs a Tale)
✍ Scribed by Archer, Jeffrey
- Book ID
- 108873112
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781447225522
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
This edition brings together three of Jeffrey Archer's classic collections of short stories: To Cut a Long Story Short , Cat O' Nine Tales and And Thereby Hangs a Tale , showcasing the master storyteller's skill like never before. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service - but for a good cause. In 'Caste-Off', Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi, and in 'Don't Drink The Water', a company chairman tries to poison his wife while on a trip to St Petersburg - with unexpected consequences . . . The stories held in these pages are irresistible: ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and deliciously...