The Pickerskill Detentions

Dr Henry Pickerskill, retired English Master of Haunchurst college for boys, looks back on his most memorable detentions

The Pickerskill Detentions - A Pickerskill Excursion

In an attempt to illustrate the finality of death to three disrespectful boys, Dr Pickerskill persuades them to lock him in a tomb.

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The Pickerskill Detentions - A Textbook Detention

Pickerskill's doctoring of a hated school textbook goes unnoticed until the subversive book is mistakenly used by another teacher.

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The Pickerskill Detentions - Smoking Wet

Pickerskill receives four boys into his detention after they have been caught selling cigarettes to minors.

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The Pickerskill Detentions - The Black-Eyed Marketeer

Pickerskill recalls a detention from 1941. Augustus Calman soon discovers his father's black market connections are no match for the Luftwaffe.

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