Lennox and her five children (all in their late teens or early twenties). Number 4, the house next door, Miss Balfour, a gentle and unassuming spinster who was constantly surprised to find "how astonishingly nice and good people were when you knew them..."What she did not know and would not have believed was that the people who knew her could not help living up to her belief in their good qualities.

    "A German counterpart to The Caine Mutiny" (Frederic Morton), SHARKS AND LITTLE FISH is based on the author's own experiences as a young submariner. "It is as uncompromising, vivid, and unfalsified an account of war-time naval life as has appeared." (Times Literary Supplement)

    After all he'd been walking the halls of the local castle at night and occasionally nodding to the servants ever since he drowned some 86 years ago. No one was the least bit alarmed by the Graf's spectral walks. The castle's major domo found it all quite comforting. After all the young Graf had been quite popular while he was alive.When the actor hired to play the dead Graf in a movie is felled by an accident, the film's director is overjoyed to come across a talented replacement who seems to have been born to play the part, little realizing that the Graf and his faithful servant -- who perished in the same accident -- had only recently decided to materialize in public.The Graf isn't stagestruck. He's back among the living to correct an old wrong. Along the way, he adds a bit of realism to a cinematic duel, befuddles a blackmarketeer, breaks out of jail, and exposes a charlatan spiritualist. At the same time, his amorous servant Franz is in the grip of an awkward dilemma. What if he's pursuing the granddaughters of village maidens he dallied with eight decades in the past?