A baker's dozen of delightful yarns featuring the James Eliot Lavender and his chronicler Charles Gilruth.Most were published in the 1920s in Wayside Tales, Short Stories and Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories, which are impossible to find today at any price. None of these stories have appeared in book form before.

Stories include:

The Lisping Man; Recipe for Murder; The House that Vanished; The Man Who Couldn't Fly; The Case of the Two Flutes; The Sealed Room; and more.