Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story, 'Untouchable', at the age of sixteen in 1950. Since then he has written over a hundred stories, including the classic 'A Face in the Dark', 'The Kitemaker', 'The Tunnel', 'The Room of Many Colours', 'Dust on the Mountain' and 'Time Stops at Shamli'. This volume brings together the best of all the short fiction Ruskin Bond has ever written.

These are the stories contained in this title:-

• Untouchable
• The Coral Tree
• Going Home
• The Daffodil Case
• The Eyes Have It
• The Night Train at Deoli
• The Woman on Platform No. 8
• The Thief
• The Photograph
• The Window
• The Boy Who Broke the Bank
• Most Beautiful
• The Haunted Bicycle
• The Fight
• A Rupee Goes a Long Way
• Faraway Places
• How Far Is the River?
• Tribute to a Dead Friend
• The Trouble with Jinns
• Time Stops at Shamli
• The Flute Player
• Chachi's Funeral
• The Man Who Was Kipling
• The Girl from Copenhagen
• Hanging at the Mango Tope
• A Tiger in the House
• All Creatures Create and Small
• Calypso Christmas
• Bhabiji's House
• Masterji
• As Time Goes By
• Death of a Familiar
• Dead Man's Gift
• The Most Potent Medicine of All
• The Story of Madhu
• My First Love
• The Kitemaker
• The Prospect of Flowers
• Sita and the River
• The Tunnel
• The Leopard
• Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright
• Coming Home to Dehra
• My Father's Trees in Dehra
• The Room of Many Colours
• The Last Tonga Ride
• The Tiger in the Tunnel
• A Face in the Dark
• Binya Passes By
• He Said It with Arsenic
• Whispering in the Dark
• Escape from Java
• The Last Time I Saw Delhi
• A Guardian Angel
• Love Is a Sad Song
• Listen to the Wind
• The Garlands on His Brow
• His Neighbour's Wife
• The Monkeys
• A Case for Inspector Lal
• Panther's Moon
• The Good Old Days
• Death of the Trees
• Miss Bun and Others
• The Funeral
• The Last Truck Ride
• Dust on the Mountain
• Would Astley Return?
• A Job Well Done
• A Crow for All Seasons
• The Playing Fields of Simla
• The Wind on Haunted Hill
• From Small Beginnings
• When Darkness Falls
• Whistling in the Dark
• Something in the Water
• Wilson's Bridge
• On Fairy Hill
• Reunion at the Regal
• Grandfather Fights an Ostrich
• Grandfatehr's Many Faces
• Here Comes Mr Oliver
• Susanna's Seven Husbands
• What's Your Dream?
• Eyes of the Cat
• The Cherry Tree
• When You Can't Climb Trees Any More
• A Love of Long Ago