![]() ![]() After completing two Masters' degrees (in Classics and Philosophy), he taught English in Istanbul for a year. In the story The Ransom of Red Chief the author O’ Henry tells the story of two men that kidnap a 10 year old boy named Johnny Dorset so that his father would give them 1,000 dollars for his return. ![]() He was born in Manchester and attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Manchester University. More than 2,000 kids are kidnapped a day according to the national center for missing and exploited Children. Henry tells of two itinerant criminals named Sam and Bill who kidnap a 10-year-old boy and hold him for ransom. ![]() ![]() The world and the door - The theory and the hound - The hypotheses of failure - Calloway's code - A matter of mean elevation - "Girl" - Sociology in serge and straw - The ransom of Red Chief - The marry month of May - A technical error - Suite homes and their romance - The whirligig of life - A sacrifice hit - The roads we take - A blackjack bargainer - The song and the sergeant - One dollar's worth - A newspaper story - Tommy's burglar - A chaparral Christmas gift - A little local colour - Georgia's ruling - Blind man's holiday - Madame Bo-Peep, of the ranches. Paul Shipton (born 1963) is an award-winning children's author. The famous humorous short story 'The Ransom of Red Chief' by O. ![]()
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