Letters from a Professional Nuisance: Improbable Jobs, Impossible Items and Implausible Complaints

Michael A. Lee pens an application to become the Beast of Bodmin Moor, inquires where he might be able to purchase a "corporate ladder" to help his career, and writes a grumbling complaint to Harry Ramsden's fish-and-chip shop about the chip on his shoulder. Irrereverent, imaginative, and sometimes downright silly, these letters frequently provoke responses from the recipients that prove to be equally funny. There are replies from such venerable institutions as MI5, the office of the Archbishop of York, assorted Royal Societies and peers, the French Navy, and even the Pope—absolutely no one is safe from the author's acerbic pen and unique imagination.