After-Dinner StoryIn the story of the man who invites five men to dinner, one of whom he believes has murdered his son, and by a trick forces them to admit his crime; in the amazing tale of the invalid who unravelled a mystery from what he saw from his bedroom window; and in the other equally fascinating stories that make up this book, William Irish shows his mastery of detection and a faculty for gripping the interest throughout

"Murder in the Vendee" finds Lauriant disgraced and banished to a small

A memoir of the chaos

Interwoven with his story is that of two people: the young policeman who loses the support of his colleagues during the murder hunt

William Dougal

set in a city few have travelled to

this- while facile diversion- is no more than that

But the witness is Tony Baker

The Ice Harvest

and danger

Twenty years later Marina is dead

Her job on the line

are the things he thought them to be