This 2009 edition by Crippen and Landru also includes the Department of Patterns and Dr Kang stories. |
The 2020 edition from Farrago books contains the five original stories and an introduction by John Higgins who also narrates the audiobook version. |
The five stories about the Minerva Club are among the best Canning ever wrote, and certainly the funniest. The club itself is a "gentleman's club" in London's West End, the sort of place where you might meet a Richard Hannay or a Lord Peter Wimsey ... except that in this case the entry qualification is to have served a prison sentence of two years or more. It is not a club for gentlemen.
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