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Dirty Work: Deep Waters, Part 11.

Dirty Work: Deep Waters, Part 11.

A night-watchman who loves his job for one reason: nobody tells him what to do. When a thief snatches a lady's purse and hurls it into the murky dock waters, our man sees opportunity. Why hand it over to the police when he could dive in and keep it for himself? What follows is a series of spectacularly bad decisions, comic encounters with a foolish landlord and a confoundingly literal-minded policeman, and one man sinking deeper into trouble than the purse ever did. W. W. Jacobs, master of the grimly funny tale, delivers exactly the kind of story where you root for the protagonist while knowing they're absolutely doomed. The ending lands with the kind of ironic twist that Jacobs perfected: not a punishment, but a complication that makes everything infinitely worse in the most satisfying way.

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