Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories Author:Kingsley Amis Includes 6 stories; Mr. Barrett's Secret, Boris and the Colonel, A Twitch on the Thread, Toil and Trouble, Captain Nolan's Chance, 1941/A. — "In this richly varied volume we meet a fascinating range of characters. There is Mr. Barrett with his rather surprising worry about his daughter's involvement with the poet Browning; a pars... more »on who meets his identical twin with chilling consequences; a mild literary agent suddenly taken hostage; and even Lord Lucan in an evocation of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. Kingsley Amis's virtuoso skills as a storyteller are triumphantly to the fore (sic) in this compelling collection."« less