This is the diary of Hippocrates Yeoman, a ‘cunning man’ of Ivinghoe, England, in 1623. Once a London apothecary, he has now (following a crime so evil it has no name) become a reluctant detective. Many a lurid mystery does he unravel, in the ...

Back in print, an exuberant and funny Yeoman-Blake story in which hundreds of mice trick a grumpy miller The grumpy miller is having mouse trouble, so he buys himself a large tabby cat. Fortunately for the mice, the cat is too un...