A crime fiction collection that displays the Irish gift for storytelling, covering over a century of writing, in an anthology of murder, mystery and suspense. The book contains stories from: William Trevor, Gerald Griffin, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Nicholas Blake, Rearden Connor, Samuel Lover, Richard Dowling, George A. Birmingham, Eimar O'Duffy, Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan, Brian Cleeve, Sean O'Faolain, Lord Dunsany, Peter Cheyney, Edmund Crispin, Frank O'Connor, Benedict Kiely, Liam O'Flaherty, Cathal O'Sandair, M. McDonnell Bodkin, Dorothea Conyers, Freeman Wills Crofts, L.A.G. Strong and Peter Tremayne.