Ruskin Bond is the most addictive and entertaining writer in modern Indian literature. The author of over a hundred novels and short-story collections, his fiction is especially celebrated for the unforgettable misfits, Dreamers, small-time con artists, rapscallions, thieves and drifters who populate it. For the first time ever, a gallery of rascals brings together the most memorable rogues to feature in Ruskin Bonds fiction. A few brand new storiesa man called brain, Sher Singh and the hot-water bottle, crossing the road headline this collection and rub shoulders with much-loved tales like the thief story, The boy who broke the Bank, tigers for dinner and a case for Inspector Lal. thrilling and effortlessly readable, the thirty stories in this book show exactly why Ruskin Bonds fiction is irresistible.