Horne Fisher is 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' in these eight stories. In the final story, 'The Vengeance of the Statue', Fisher notes: 'The Prime Minister is my father's friend. The Foreign Minister married my sister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is my first cousin.' Because of these intimate relationships with the leading political figures in the land, Fisher knows too much about the private politics behind the public politics of the day. This knowledge is a burden to him in the eight stories ...