W. O. Mitchell

Story of life in Shelby, a small western town located in the Alberta foothills in the 1950's and the effects that a sociologist from an Eastern University has on the town when she arrives to conduct a study on the town.

Colin Dobbs, a Canadian university professor who is recovering in hospital after being mauled by a grizzly reviews his past life and we learn what brought him to Daisy Creek and how his life was changed.

When a dying reality television star's child is snatched at an international airport, ghost writer and guardian Stephanie Harker assists the FBI's search while investigating the family's past to discover a motive for the abduction.

Ladybug's friends rush to help her when they hear her house is on fire.

Two of W.O. Mitchell's plays are collected here. 'The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon' is a whimsical take on the Faust legend with a distinctly Canadian flavour. 'The Devil's Instrument' depicts a Hutterite teenager struggling with conformity in a puritan society.