Mr. Simpson and Other Short Stories

<p>Award-winning author Stephen Maitland-Lewis's first collection of short stories includes tales of international intrigue suspense mystery and exotic adventures. Featuring the exploits of such diverse characters as a fugitive from justice a frustrated musician an unscrupulous Manhattan art dealer an impoverished London banker and a British schoolboy in New Zealand and Palm Springs. The anthology also chronicles amorous escapades in Geneva Paris and the French Riviera family greed and a mysterious Munich tattoo parlor among many other stories. </p><p><br></p><p>The collection is highlighted by the book's title character Mr. Ernest Simpson-a fictional account twenty-three years after his divorce from Wallis Simpson and the abdication of King Edward VIII.</p>