Leacock opens by meeting the demand for ever-shorter fiction with stories that could swell to a dollar-fifty novel if left to soak overnight in rainwater. From there he parodies psychological fiction, serialised foreign romances and the spy-mania of the war years, where a tall melancholy waiter named Max turns out to be one of the greatest chemists in Germany.
Canada’s great humorist at full stretch, and a pleasure for anyone who enjoys parody of popular fiction. Download the free EPUB.