After-Dinner StoryThis collection of six stories was originally published in hardback under the title After Dinner Story.

and a love letter to the game that made him

Little can he imagine the hurdles that lie before him

'We need love stories like these

an artfully crafted debut that echoes the dark essence of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN while maintaining a fascinating originality all of its own' Susan Stokes-Chapman

the sadness and the confusions

One of BBC's Books of 2023

and not to be missed Crime by the Book

' CHRISTINA DALCHER

‘Hugely atmospheric

From the Italian Alps to northern Germany

for the single copy rumoured still to exist

Never before in the Nero Wolfe books has Rex Stout shown us the extremes to which the greatest detective in the world can be pushed