The amazing Mr. Morality
Subtitle: stories
By: Jacob M. Appel
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781946684042
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Short stories
Other titles: Amazing Mister Morality
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "The Amazing Mr. Morality 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. 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?"--
Table of contents: title: The children's lottery --; title: Jury of matrons --; title: Gable's whiskers --; title: Burrowing in exile --; title: Tracking Harold Lloyd --; title: Next of kith --; title: Right of way --; title: A change of plumage --; title: The desecration at Lemming Bay --; title: The amazing Mr. Morality.