When Max announces his plan to sell the Eiffel Tower, Nicholas is aghast, but resigned to the fact that he has no choice but to go along with the scheme. As a child, Gerald loved Madeline, but that was a long, long time ago. Since then a chasm of ill feeling has developed between them. Cecil would have loved to be an aggressive feline predator, but he believed his mother's assessment of him. According to her, he was just a timid little mouse. No one loved him except his three precious goldfish. Poetic Justice is a wonderful compendium of 11 short stories, each full of dark twists, dry wit and delicious servings of just desserts.
