In a bar aboard a ferry to Tenerife the narrator hears a story from the barman about a prison escape from Dartmoor. A travelling circus performs beside the prison and the prisoner escapes in a gorilla suit. The punchline comes when the narrator works out the role the barman played in all this.
This Week, 19 January, 1958.
Included in the now discontinued collection The Exotics, edited
by John Higgins, Lulu.com, 2011.
Included in the collection
The Aberdyll Onion and other mysteries, Farrago Books, 2020.