"It Happened in Hoboken: Comic Tales from the Waterfront City" by Eugene C. Flinn is a collection of 21 short stories that include an actress whose strict mother does not know she is going on stage naked, a kid who has words with Santa Claus, an elderly woman who advises the manager of the New York Giants, a mobster who buys a fashionable magazine to impress his girl friends, school children who steal Montcalm's head, a nun who gives the finger to a rude truck driver, a wedding guest who finds himself at the "Reject Table," horse players who unknowingly stumble on two genuine Monet paintings and try to sell them in a Hoboken alley, a gun fight in a funeral home, and more.