Twenty-eight short stories by Australian novelist, poet, journalist Harold Mercer, 1882-1952. No collection of Mercer's short stories has yet been published in print form. The stories were all first published in Australian newspapers.
They are collected in order of first publication.
1: Fear
2: An Enemy of the People
3: The Manor Chamber Mystery
4: The Fangs Of Fate
5: Guilty Conscience
6: The Clock Hands of Fate
7: How Random Won The Cup
8: The Wastrel Son
9: Murder At Moberley Flats
10: Defeating The Favorite
11: The Sound of the Bugle
12: Fingerprints
13: Cargo from China
14: The Load of the Stalwart
15: The Servicetown Mystery
16: The Minute That Mattered
17: Just a Quiet Xmas
18: Fate at the Shrine
19: The Last Day
20: Bad Blood
21: The First Violin
22: The Curse of Scarletti
23: Betrayal
24: Circumstantial Evidence
25: Chance
26: Keeping Killick Killed
27: Getting Rid of Pongo
28: Stonker Badley, Parson
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