Cat O'Nine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller and bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. Ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and Archer's trademark of deliciously unexpected conclusions, some of these thirteen stories were inspired by the two years Jeffrey Archer spent in prison, including the story of a company chairman who tries to poison his wife while on a trip to St Petersburg—with unexpected consequences. The Red King is a tale about a con man who discovers that an English Lord requires one more chess piece to complete a set that would be worth a fortune. In another tale of deception, The Commissioner, a Bombay con artist ends up in the morgue, after he uses the police chief as bait in his latest scam. The Perfect Murder reveals how a convict manages to remove an old enemy while he's locked up in jail, and then set up two prison officers as his alibi. In Charity Begins at Home, an accountant realizes he has achieved nothing in his life, and sets out to make a fortune before he retires. And then there is Archer's favorite, In the Eye of the Beholder, where a handsome star athlete falls in love with a three-hundred-pound woman...who happens to be the ninth richest woman in Italy. Jeffrey Archer is the only author to have topped international bestseller lists with his fiction, non-fiction, and his short stories. Cat O'Nine Tales is Archer at his best: witty, sad, surprising, and unforgettable.

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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of A Book o' Nine Tales.. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Arlo Bates, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have A Book o' Nine Tales. in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside A Book o' Nine Tales.: Look inside the book: She smiled so dazzlingly as she spoke that a complete faith in her assurances mingled itself with some dimly felt sense of the ludicrous in the sick man's mind, and although the baffled look did not at once disappear from his face, yet he said nothing further, and not long after he fell asleep, leaving Columbine free to seek her arbor again and ponder on this new phase of her interesting case. ...The maiden had a crisp way of pronouncing the name, as if she were half conscious of a spice of impropriety in a term so familiar, and felt it, too, to be something of a joke, which was so wholly fascinating that the patient did not have to be very far advanced toward his normal condition of health and spirits to enjoy it so well as to reflect that the name so rendered ought to be enough for any man. About Arlo Bates, the Author: DEGREES a b c Arlo Bates Dies- Author of Many Books and Teacher at Institute of Technology, New York, NY: The New York Times, August 26, 1918, p. ...Categories: 1850 births1918 deathsAmerican newspaper editorsAmerican novelistsAmerican poetsBowdoin College alumniFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesMassachusetts Institute of Technology facultyPeople from Washington County, Maine

Thomas was a very small cat and that bothered him. He needed to prove he was a courageous fighter and impress everyone with heroic adventures. So, he looked around for other animals or birds he could challenge with his little paws and so prove himself. Thomas was my pet cat and I cared for him. I kept track of all his little adventures and enjoyed them so much that I just had to write them down. Now you too can enjoy Thomas, the Cat of Nine Tales.

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“Cat o’ Nine Tales” is an engaging memoir of real life experience in the urban trenches of cat rescue work. Nine special felines are profiled in detail, with their life stories and adoptions — or other outcomes — but many others will be met along the way. Liberally studded with candid photos of the cats described, “Cat o’ Nine Tales” chronicles eight years of stray and feral cat life on the West Philly streets, defining the trials and challenges these animals face, as well as the rewards and satisfaction of finding a special cat its “Forever” home.