Dedicated to Thomas Arthur Nelson
(Lothian and Border Horse)
My Dear Tommy,
You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type of tale
which Americans call the 'dime novel' and which we know as the 'shocker'
- the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just
inside the borders of the possible. During an illness last winter I exhausted
my store of those aids to cheerfulness, and was driven to write one for myself.
This little volume is the result, and I should like to put your name on it
in memory of our long friendship, in the days when the wildest fictions are
so much less improbable than the facts.
- John Buchan
CONTENTS
1. The Man Who Died
2. The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels
3. The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper
4. The Adventure of the Radical Candidate
5. The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman
6. The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist
7. The Dry-Fly Fisherman
8. The Coming of the Black Stone
9. The Thirty-Nine Steps
10. Various Parties Converging on the Sea |
