Being the True and Dolorous Chronicle of
Wm. Kidd, Gent. and Merchant of New York,
Late Captain of the Adventure Gallery,
as Narrated by His Faithful Cat,
McDERMOT

Set down and illustrated by
ROBERT LAWSON

Who was the world's most infamous pirate? Why, Captain Kidd, you'd say. The words Kidd and pirate have always meant the same thing.

Well, listen to Mc Dermot. He knows better. And he ought to have the inside facts. Didn't he sail with Kidd on his last great voyage? Wasn't he Kidd's friend to the end, and what better barometer have you of a man's character than his cat?

The ruby in McDermot's left ear was loot from the Spanish Main. He had reason to know a pirate when he saw one. And on his word, the nearest Bill Kidd ever came to crime was to bash a mutinous lobscouse with a swill bucket.

So, McDermot herein explodes the Kidd myth. And Robert Lawson once more reverses history, as in BEN AND ME and MR. REVERE AND I, always using careful research as a springboard for a perfectly controlled imagination. The result, in story and picture, is another delectable book.

From the dust jacket