Short Stories Volume 1 by John Arthur Barry is about wise tricksters and travelers in America. Excerpt: “To everyone concerned it was admitted that Mr. James Hunter, or the “Toff Bird”—which latter was the most popular of his many aliases—stood at the very head of his mixed profession. I use the adjective advisedly; for, in addition to being an accomplished burglar, he was—and the blend is most uncommon—a very competent and successful chevalier d'industrie.”
