Cat O’Nine Tales, by Jeffrey Archer

February 24, 2009 by
Filed under: book review, Fiction, International bestseller, Jeffrey Archer, Short stories 

Cat O’Nine Tales is Jeffrey Archer’s fifth collection of short stories. It was published in 2006, and nine of the twelve stories are based on tales Archer heard while in prison. The other three stories are also based on true events but are not derived from prison. Jeffrey Archer is an excellent short story writer – he masters the form of the short story almost to perfection. In Cat O’Nine tales he shows it yet again.

Cat O'Nine Tales, by Jeffrey Archer While incarcerated for two years in five different prisons, Jeffrey Archer picked up several ideas for short stories. They range from a tale of The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office, to the story of a company chairman who tried to poison his wife while on a trip to St Petersburg – both with unexpected consequences. In another, Maestro, an Italian restaurateur ends up in jail, unable to explain to the tax man how he can own a yacht, a Ferrari and a home in Florence, while only declaring a profit of £70,000 a year.

Cat O’Nine Tales is another great collection of short stories, with twelve stories with intriguing plots, by Jeffrey Archer!
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