"From the internationally best-selling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries comes a collection of short stories featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love"--

Man in black -- Articulation -- Castles in the air -- Max Mephisto and the disappearing act -- Only pebble on the beach -- St Lucy's Day -- Red handkerchief -- Justice Jones and the Etherphone -- Farewell boat -- Harbinger: a Harbinder Kaur story -- One is silver -- Village church -- Turning traitor -- Ruth's first Christmas tree -- Stranger by R.M. Holland -- What I saw from the sky -- Flint's fireside tale: a Christmas story -- Valley of the Queens: a Ruth and Nelson story -- Ruth Galloway and the ghost of Max Mephisto