Twenty-five selected stories of mystery, adventure and the supernatural, set mostly in the rugged east of India, mostly towards the close of the British-India period. Contains original artwork illustrations. Suitable for young adults.

In February of 2016 the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced the detection of gravitational wave predicted by Albert Einstein a hundred years ago, and the observation therewith of the violent merger of two black holes. The finding was made using the billion-dollar LIGO instrument, and was hailed around the world as one of the greatest discoveries in human history. This book shows that the instrument was fatally flawed in many ways and in many layers. These faults were completely understandable by the scientific establishment. Yet they rallied round the discovery and proceeded forcefully to...