More slices of island life on the Outer Banks, from the author who took you to PORT STARBIRD! The Storm Ketchum Tales are short stories that are set in the world of the Storm Ketchum Adventures series of island mystery novels. The Tales can be read along with, or independently of, the Adventures. This volume contains all six previously published short Tales, plus chronological annotations that tie together the Adventures and the Tales, and a previously unpublished Tale titled ROUTE 101. CONTENTS: An Olde Christmas Carol The Sad Blue Boat Cora's Tree Dixie Island The Wayward Mariner Pharaoh's Treasure Route 101 Join amateur sleuth Storm 'Ketch' Ketchum and his Kinnakeet Boatyard friends for mystery, history, and adventure on the picturesque Outer Banks of North Carolina, where intrigue always seems to be just around the next corner! If you're pining for John D. MacDonald and Travis McGee, Ketch might be your guy. Like Hemingway's Old Man, he reveres his island and the sea; but unlike Santiago, he doesn't fish - and despite his solitary nature, he and his boatyard friends find themselves embroiled in coastal intrigue more often than not. If you read the Hardy Boys series as a kid; if you're a fan of the Outer Banks lore of David Stick, Judge Charles Whedbee, or Ben Dixon MacNeill; or if an ecological and literary juxtaposition of Barbara Kingsolver, Randy Wayne White, Jimmy Buffett, and Carl Hiaasen might float your boat, you should enjoy the Storm Ketchum Adventures.