This is a collection of nine short stories,plus a three act play.It also has an introduction and a checklist of Inspector Cockrill Mysteries.
The stories are listed in order.
'After the Event' - A theatrical theme involving the Dragon family.
'Blood Brothers' - Two brothers after the same girl,it has got to mean trouble.
'The Hornet's Nest' - 'Cyrus Caxton was a horrid old man', and needless to say he goes and gets himself murdered.
'Poison in the Cup' - A really evil killer in this one.
'The Telephone Call' - This one is a bit obvious,
'The Kissing Cousin' - An inheritance and a killer cousin,but who is it ?
'The Rocking Chair' - A bit of a failure,didn't much like it.
'The Man on the Roof ' - A classic Locked-room Mystery, I loved it. fairly easy to solve I suppose,but extremely clever for all that
'Alleybi' - 1½ pages long only and for that quite an acceptable tale.Come on what can you do in that time ?
' The Spotted Cat' - is a three-act play,previously unpublished. A little difficult reading it in this form,but if you persist you will be rewarded with a very thrilling and creepy end. I should have loved to have seem it performed. Come on you amateur theatrical groups. ( )