Publisher's Synopsis
"...first class professional." - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH In this collection of short stories by E.V. Thompson, there are tales of the sea: Prunella the cat is in trouble when she's found by the captain of the ship she's hiding on; every time a galleon appears off West Cornwall, a member of the St Gerard family dies - now only Wendy is left, and the galleon reappears... And there are stories about criminals: in Arkansas a man is mugged on his way home; three gangsters turn up at the shop of West End fence Elijah Fink to claim their dues...And there are other pitfalls: a man, lost on a walking holiday in Ireland, arrives at an isolated house on the moors - and discovers that it's haunted...
