The Aberdyll Onion
and other mysteries

Published by Farrago Books, 2020
and available as an audiobook
narrated by John Higgins, 2022

These nineteen stories display Canning's light touch with crime and criminals. There are three corpses, but nobody gets away with murder.

• A matter of time - If you re a smuggler, stay at home on Remembrance Day.
• A question of trust - No honour among thieves.
• Cook wanted - A different way to punish a thief.
• Food for thought - A murderer shouldn't be too economical.
• The cautious safecracker - The bad luck of Artemus Wurrick.
• Monkey tricks - Archie has to compete with a monkey when it comes to theft.
• The gorilla that died twice - The dangers of pretending to be a gorilla.
• Lady in the dark - He thought he had got away with it.
• Star stuff - Knocking on the wtong door.
• Death wore green - Hazards in the South Pacific.
• The Aberdyll onion - Horticultural rivalry gets out of control.
• The white spell - An unexpected prize in the sheepdog trials.
• Dialogue behind a curtain - Even dictators may need friends.
• Watch your step - A secret of the confessional.
• Fighting cockerel - How was the bird injured?
• Fill the night with murder - A problem of navigation.
• Sanctuary for the general - Only one way to stop the bulldozers.
• Vintage vendetta - What money can't buy.
• The ballerina and the pigs - Bumbling bureaucrats don't get their way.