In this collection of short stories we meet several new characters from the author’s fictional village of Linton Musgrove. Jerry Harrison, a writer of crime fiction, and his girlfriend, Emmeline Cargill, are recent arrivals in Linton Musgrove who appear in five of the stories. Oliver Melluish, the senior master at Linton House School uses his long experience to help younger masters out of their difficulties in a further two. The remaining three stories belong to some of the mildly eccentric clergymen who first appeared in This Congregation Here Present.