- The New Collected Short Stories brings together three of Jeffrey Archer"s classic collections of short stories: To Cut a Long Story Short, Cat O" Nine Tales and And Thereby Hangs a Tale, showcasing the master storyteller"s skill like never before. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty"s diplomatic service - but for a good cause. In "Caste-Off", Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi, and in "Don"t Drink The Water", a company chairman tries to poison his wife while on a trip to St Petersburg - with unexpected consequences ...The stories held in these pages are irresistible: ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and deliciously unexpected conclusions.