Jim Crocker's aunt wishes to reform his character but her niece Ann objects to him. Jim meets Ann, falls in love with her and follows aunt and niece to New York where he naturally ends up impersonating himself. Add a kidnap plot, a baseball fan, an ex-boxer and a tube of high explosive and you have a plot guaranteed to go with a bang.
| UK: | 1918 Herbert Jenkins |
| 1961 Penguin (used here) | |
| US: | 1917 Dodd Mead & Co |
| Canada: | 1917 McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart |
First published in the Saturday Evening Post (US) from 16 September to 11 November 1916.
Nesta and Ogden Ford originally appeared in The Little Nugget but there are a few changes from that book; for example, at least two years have passed but Ogden is still 14 and Smooth Sam Fisher's history has changed. As long as you don't read this as a direct sequel, or one after the other, the differences don't matter.