The Fifth ColumnInspired by Hemingways adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War magnificently evokes life in a besieged city over a tumultuous decade. Featuring the authors only full length play, the works recount decadent parties and doomed love affairs amid the rubble, and effortlessly capture the devastating effects of the war on the inhabitants of the city.

menacing and heart-wrenching

from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert

They called me the queens dwarf

he just wants to do the right thing

Until an unexpected call from Firwood hospital

endorsed by the Conan Doyle Estate

Jess has gone

challenged and shaped him

Done with puzzles

and Genevieve

accidental crime-busting

and a brave new world forged