"...first class professional." - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH In this collection of short stories by E.V. Thompson, there are tales of the 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 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 a man, lost on a walking holiday in Ireland, arrives at an isolated house on the moors - and discovers that it's haunted...
E V Thompson was born in London and spent nine years in the Navy before joining Bristol police. He moved to Hong Kong, then Rhodesia and had over 200 stories published before returning to England to become a full-time award-winning writer.