Book description
As Tony, the narrator of the story, is leaving the warehouse where he works as a cheese loader, the police question him about a suitcase that he is carrying out. It is empty, as it happens—returned by a friend who had borrowed it and had been hoping to keep it for himself.
This short opening episode, embellished with some pithy references to the police, economically establishes that Tony and his workmates are no respecters of private property and that the police are their common enemy. Tony elaborates his attitude toward the law in a comic account of cheese…
CONTENTS:
1. The Ragman’s Daughter
2. The Other John Peel
3. The Firebug
4. The Magic Box
5. The Bike
6. To Be Collected
7. The Good Women
