Richard Harding Davis – The Make-Believe Man

Type: Short story, Fiction

Rating: 8/10

Review:

This one deserves as short a review as the book itself. I wonder where all the ideas for his novels seem to keep popping up from. This one is no less funny than the two previous ones that I’d read.

This one features two friends who decide to go out and find an adventure for themselves to be a part of. One of the friends, the more outgoing type, decides to take matters into his own hands and starts creating an atmosphere and background for them to fall in an adventure. However, he later realizes that while he was trying to create one, he was already becoming part of one.

The comedy of errors in this one never fails to make you laugh.  The final twist in the tale is even more amazing and will leave you smiling, amused.

Richard Harding Davis – Peace Manoeuvres

Peace Manoeuvres

Type: Short Story

Rating: 9/10

Review:

Another brilliant work by the author. I am starting to really like his works. And all the stuff I have are just short stories, so they tend to be pretty tempting too.

This one’s about a soldier who’s a scout and is trying to get into enemy lines and find where the enemy lies ahead. As fate would have it, he meets his old time flame who had rejected him earlier. He tries to get back into her life and the whole thing turns out to be something else in the end. Once again, I’m not disappointed.

Richard Harding Davis – The Amateur

The Amateur

Type: Short Story

Rating: 9/10

Review:

This one will be shorter than the short story itself. There’s not much to say other than the fact that I think I should read more from this author.

The plot is a simplistic one of one person playing detective and trying to “help” a poor woman find her “husband”. However the “detective” is in for surprises of his own. This one’s a good read.