The Alibi Cafe: And Other Stories Book

This ...book/collection... mess... has not a single redeeming factor. It's largely incomprehensible to me... I've tried to pick it up several times from my Grandfathers old collection, but never make it further than a dozen or so pages into each story. The only person who should have read this thing was the man's psychiatrist and certainly not the reading public. Not the biggest fan of Kipling in any case, but he could at least string a series of comprehensible sentences together in his earlier work. This represented the low point of his career and is poor by anyone's standards... never mind his own.