Dear Illusion: Selected Stories

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

These stories were first published as follows:

‘My Enemy’s Enemy’ in Encounter, 1955

‘Court of Inquiry’ in the Spectator, 1956

‘I Spy Strangers’ in the collection My Enemy’s Enemy, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962

‘Moral Fibre’ in Esquire, 1958

‘All the Blood Within Me’ in the Spectator, 1962

‘Dear Illusion’ as Covent Garden Stories no. 1, Covent Garden Press Ltd, 1972

‘Something Strange’ in the Spectator, 1960

‘The 2003 Claret’ in The Complete Imbiber, vol. 2, Putman & Co., 1958

‘The Friends of Plonk’ in Town, 1964

‘Too Much Trouble’ in Penguin Modern Stories II, 1972

‘Investing in Futures’ in The Complete Imbiber, Cyril Ray, 1986

‘Hemingway in Space’ in Punch, 1960

‘Who or What Was It?’ in Playboy, 1972

‘The Darkwater Hall Mystery’ in Playboy, 1978

‘The House on the Headland’ in The Times, 1979

‘Affairs of Death’ in Shakespeare’s Stories, Hamish Hamilton, 1982

‘Mason’s Life’ in The Sunday Times, 1972

‘To See the Sun’ in Collected Short Stories, Hutchinson, 1980

All the stories listed above were published together for the first time in Collected Short Stories, Hutchinson, 1980.

‘Mr Barrett’s Secret’, ‘Boris and the Colonel’, ‘A Twitch on the Thread’, ‘Toil and Trouble’, ‘Captain Nolan’s Chance’ and ‘1941/A’ were first published in Mr Barrett’s Secret and Other Stories, Hutchinson, 1993