My Enemy's Enemy Steven Saylor Holmes and Watson find themselves

Holmes and Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events

she is lured into a piece of theatre over which

Percival Pyke came to write the letter of condolence before the body was found

Heartbreaking

and we are a people with the ability to pick the worst of them

My Enemy's Enemy Steven Saylor Holmes and Watson find themselvesA selection of seven short stories set in post WW II England, Kingsley Amis exemplifies social satire at its ironic best. Three of these stories, dealing with members of a British Signal Unit at the end of the war, are humorous in their analysis of the moral and social climate of that time. Three of the remaining stories focus on some peculiarities of civilian life, and the last piece constitutes an unusual venture into science fiction.