The Amazing Mr. Morality

<p><em>The Amazing Mr. Morality</em> features tenacious men and women whose determination to buck middle-class social convention draws them toward unforeseen challenges. A failed television producer insists upon having a woodchuck relocated from his lawn only to receive desperate letters in which the woodchuck begs to return. An overconfident ne'er-do-well obtains a lucrative lecture invitation intended for a renowned ornithologist and decides to deliver the speech himself. An innocuous dispute over whether to rename a local street opens up racial fault lines that prove deadly.<br />The collection concludes with the title novella in which two unscrupulous ethicists writing rival newspaper columns seek to unseat each other by addressing questions such as: If you're going to commit a murder is it worse to kill when the victim is sleeping or awake?</p>