Mr Jo, nicknamed “the man with the Buick”, is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who would…

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving…

A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.

An undertaker who hasn’t had any ‘customers’ in a long time is forced to pay one year’s back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers…

In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and…

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny’s husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track…

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave,…

When Miss Vicki’s father dies, she becomes the world’s greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses…

Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants…

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated,…

When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.