
Although not as well known as On The Beach or A Town Like Alice, and though published 65 years ago, Nevil Shute's modest masterpiece with the unassuming title, Trustee From the Toolroom, is very much a novel for our times, telling the story of a seemingly boring everyman who risks his life to travel to the other side of the world in order to assure an inheritance for his orphaned neice. In our society of egoism, insincerity, and polarization, Trustee From The Toolroom — in the simplest, straightforward prose that Shute is famous for — tells the story of one individual's humanitarian act of selflessness, even if it does mean breaking a few laws.
— Dan Crosby has published short fiction in many of Canada’s leading literary journals, including The Fiddlehead, EVENT, The Windsor Review, Carousel, Scrivener, Green’s Magazine, Mystery Magazine, and Mystery Tribune. A collection of mystery stories, Of Murder and Mayhem, is available on Amazon. He lives in Whitby, Ontario.
You can read Dan Crosby's story "Walk The Grain" in Issue 303 (Spring 2025). Order the issue now:
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