This compendium of Edgar Mittelholzer's uncollected by Juanita Cox,
brings together his early collection of sketches of Georgetown life,
Creole Chips, his speculative novella, The Adding Machine, twenty-four
short stories, two short plays, his published and unpublished poetry and
essays covering travel, literature and his personal beliefs. This is
mostly work written before Mittelholzer came to England in search of
publishing opportunities. It shows a writer still deeply concerned with
the Caribbean, a writer of playful humour who is committed to entertain,
not to preach as his later work tends to do, and a writer who wrote in a
variety of genres (speculative fiction, crime, and the Gothic) that
contemporary Caribbean writers are rediscovering.