The Great St Mary’s Day Out
The Great St Mary's Day Out starts with an unusually generous offer from Dr Bairstow: a holiday at his expense.
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The Great St Mary's Day Out starts with an unusually generous offer from Dr Bairstow: a holiday at his expense. The condition is that the staff record a performance of Hamlet featuring Shakespeare as the Ghost.
A theatre visit soon has to compete with a market brawl and Professor Rapson's accidental departure aboard a ship bound for the New World. Max is left trying to get the actual assignment done.
Our view: the appeal is the staff outing itself. Putting senior colleagues and familiar troublemakers on the same excursion offers a different angle on the institute from a tightly selected mission team.
This short story appears in The Long and the Short of It and is also published as an individual ebook. The site's order places it after Lies, Damned Lies, and History. Zara Ramm reads the UK unabridged audiobook, lasting 1 hour 36 minutes.
My Name Is Markham is another nearby shorter option.
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- Lies, Damned Lies, and History · St Mary’s
- And the Rest Is History · St Mary’s
- The Long and the Short of It · Standalone & collections
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- Shorter work in suggested sequence
- First published
- 2016 · publication source ↗
- Audiobook
- Zara Ramm · 1 hr 36 min
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UK Digital audio · English · Unabridged
Listed audio release: 1 August 2026.
UK Ebook · Headline Publishing Group
ISBN 9781472264527 · released 1 January 2019
Publisher ebook sourceConfirmed premise: Publisher description ↗
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