Old Brigadier Etienne Gerard holds court in a café and tells how he lost his ear in Venice, captured Saragossa, killed the fox in an English hunt, rode to Minsk and bore himself at Waterloo. He is brave, boastful and blind to his own absurdity, and the eight stories turn on the gap between what he says and what the reader sees.
Doyle’s comic counterweight to Holmes, and a treat for anyone who enjoys Napoleonic adventure told with a wink. Download the free EPUB.