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The Aberdyll Onion
Book 9 in the Classic Canning series.
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This collection brings together Victor Canning’s post-war short fiction of crime, deception and comic misadventure. The settings range from a Welsh valley and the French countryside to Mediterranean islands and urban interiors. Amateur schemers, cautious professionals and ordinary people facing unusual temptations repeatedly discover that a clever plan can be overturned by vanity, affection, coincidence or local knowledge.
The stories were originally written in the 1950s and 1960s and retain the social texture of those decades: slower travel, close village communities, informal policing and a Europe still shaped by wartime memory. Suspense is generally compact and humane rather than violent. The title story and its companions show Canning using the short form to unite the landscape writing of his early novels with the plotting skills of his later thrillers.
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