To Cut a Long Story Short - Paperback

by Jeffrey Archer (Author)

An astonishing short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, To Cut a Long Story Short.

A dying man doesn't know which of his relations to leave his fortune to, only to find out who really cares about him. A chance overheard conversation changes the course of an entire man's life. A woman savors every word of a letter from her lover while her husband reads over her shoulder. A criminal on the loose confesses that he is desperate to be caught. A widowed mother learns the cold truth about her second husband at the dawn of her third marriage. A pencil, the cruelest of the artist's tools, leaves nothing to chance...

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An enthralling collection of stories--with unforgettable characters, ingenious plotting, and surprise endings--from internatioanl bestselling author

Jeffrey Archer

A dying man doesn't know which of his relations to leave his fortune to, only to find out who really cares about him. A chance overheard conversation changes the course of an entire man's life. A woman savors every word of a letter from her lover while her husband reads over her shoulder.A criminal on the loose confesses that he is desperate to be caught.A widowed mother learns the cold truth about her second husband at the dawn of her third marriage. A pencil, the cruellest of the artist's tools, leaves nothing to chance...

"[In this] collection of fourteen cleverly twisting tales, Archer maintains his obsession with surprise endings."--Publishers Weekly

"Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages." --The Boston Globe

Author Biography

JEFFREY ARCHER was educated at Oxford University. He has served five years in Britain's House of Commons and fourteen years in the House of Lords. All of his novels and short story collections-including Sins of the Father, And Thereby Hangs a Tale, A Prisoner of Birth, and Kane & Abel-have been international bestsellers. Archer is married with two sons and lives in London and Cambridge.