Complete and unabridged. A Frenchman loose in England explains everything that happens to him, always wrongly, in a comic novel by the man who wrote The Lunatic at Large. Clouston was the son of a famous Edinburgh asylum doctor and had an exact ear for the pompous. Its 55 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

J. Storer Clouston (1870-1944) was a Scottish novelist born in Cumberland and raised in Orkney, where he later served as county convener. A barrister by training, he wrote comic novels and detective fiction. His works include The Lunatic at Large, The Adventures of M. D'Haricot, and The Spy in Black.