Rest Assured

Rest Assured is Nicholas Rhea's second collection of tales of the "Man from the Premier", and features some of the same characters.

In Some Assured we met Crocky Morris, the amiable but accident-prone pot pedlar who travels on foot, selling crockery from a basket balanced on his head. Crocky likes a drink and most of his cash is soon spent in the local tavern.

However, in his happy state, he manages to cause several unfortunate accidents' and, in Rest Assured, he continues to cause mayhem wherever he goes. Firstly, he jumps out in front of Matthew's car as he nervously teaches Evelyn to drive and, later, Crocky frightens a prized thoroughbred hunter into bolting.

Dumped unceremoniously in the mud, Major Berkeley Carruthers is not amused! Nicholas Rhea clearly has a weakness for this entertaining rogue, who promises to be the Claude Jeremiah Greengrass of the series!

Rest Assured was originally published in 2005.