Best Of

Contents

Bandit Number Two    (new)

Mummies for You and for Me

In and Out of the Campos with Puerto Plata Don

In Search of Babalowas and a Way to Beat the Embargo Blues

For Love of One’s King

Have We Learned Anything Yet?

Scat Packin’ in Desolation Canyon with a Band of Green River Pirates

Tick City Shuffle

Tugging the Rug

Down on the Farm

Smell those Fragrant Tulips?

From the Shadow of Revolution Arose a Bearded Monkey

A Pinch of Pepper on that Durian?

A Red for Cousin Pat

Three Gringos in Peru

Pupusas all around

Duck Egg Challenge

The only Blight was on My Blarneyed, Troubled Skull

Gypsies…Where’s the Love?

The Legendary Jim Fitzgerald

Cyclos Dop Bpee      (new)

I had just finished wrapping up Vignettes from the Village and was talking to Christian Bates on the telephone when he asked me if a ‘Best Of” was on tap for the Man On The Scene series. I had pondered the idea many times. After hanging up the phone, I decided to get right to work on the anthology. I must say that it wasn’t easy deciding which stories to include. I tend to be somewhat biased, having lived through each and every adventure. I thought about surveying some of my readers, but quickly decided against it. What was the point? Everyone tends to have their own reasons for liking a particular story. In the end, I would have received too much feedback and that might have been worse than none at all. So in the end, I opted to select a balanced selection from all four Scene books…Man On The Scene, Malfeasance in Motion, Slippery Escarpment, and Another One More. For better or for worse, here they are… I have also included two previously unreleased stories; Bandit Number Two, and Cyclos Dop Bpee.

284 pages/Published in 2009