Tell Tale

<p><b>Master storyteller Jeffrey Archer returns with <i>Tell Tale</i>, a new collection of brilliant short stories. Poignant, engrossing and captivating; this is Archer at his spellbinding best.</b><br><br><b>"Stylish, witty and constantly entertaining ... Jeffrey Archer has a natural aptitude for short stories" <i>The Times</i></b><br><br>Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited, brand-new collection <b><i>Tell Tale</i></b>, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years.<br><br>Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out <i>Who Killed the Mayor?</i> and the pretentious schoolboy in <i>A Road to Damascus</i>, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way.<br><br>Revel in the stories of the 1930s woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in <i>A Gentleman and A Scholar</i> while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than she bargained for in <i>A Wasted Hour</i>.<br><br>These wonderfully engaging and always refreshingly original tales prove not only why Archer has been compared by the critics to Dahl and Maugham, but why he was described by <i>The Times</i> as probably the greatest storyteller of our age.<br><br><b>PRAISE FOR JEFFREY ARCHER'S SHORT STORIES</b><br><br>"Somerset Maugham never penned anything so swift or urbanely witty as this" <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>"The short story has always been Jeffrey Archer's strong suit and here he grips you quickly, puts you on the scent of a mystery, and moves you towards a charming moment of revelation" <i>The Scotsman</i><br><br>"Outstanding . . . white-knuckle suspense and witty denouements. An enjoyable, suspense-filled rival to Roald Dahl" <i>Daily Express</i><br><br>"If there was a Nobel prize for storytelling, Archer would win" <i>Daily Telegraph</i></p>