Subtitled The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth, it is a collection of 10 of the 11 short stories and novelettes written about the adventures and mysteries of this detective and British Secret Service agent. The editor of this collection, Mike Ashley, includes an excellent introduction beautifully laying out the career of author Vincent Cornier and how many of these stories were rewrites of earlier tales or would themselves be rewritten later on.
These stories are: