Deception is usually frowned on as morally unacceptable, but is italways wrong? Can hiding or distorting the truth sometimes have goodeffects, adding to the sum of human happiness? These ten stories arefull of secrets and lies, from a light-hearted bit of fun to dark anddesperate deceit, but whether harmless or evil, deception cansometimes lead to quite unexpected complications. This collectioncontains stories by Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Maeve Binchy, V.S.Naipaul, Somerset Maugham, Frederick Forsyth, Clare Boylan, PaulTheroux, Oscar Wilde, and Joanna Trollope.
