The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories

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The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories
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Dust-jacket from first edition
AuthorLord Dunsany
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy, crime fiction
PublisherJarrolds
Publication date
1952
Media typePrint (hardback)

The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories is a collection of fantasy and crime short stories by writer Lord Dunsany. It was first published in London by Jarrolds in October, 1952.

The book collects twenty-six short pieces by Dunsany, including the much-anthologised mystery story "The Two Bottles of Relish", with its neat and devastating one-sentence solution at the end.

An audiobook of the collection was released in 2017.[citation needed]

Contents[]

  • "The Two Bottles of Relish"
  • "The Shooting of Constable Slugger"
  • "An Enemy of Scotland Yard"
  • "The Second Front"
  • "The Two Assassins"
  • "Kriegblut's Disguise"
  • "The Mug in the Gambling Hall"
  • "The Clue"
  • "Once Too Often"
  • "An Alleged Murder"
  • "The Waiter's Story"
  • "A Trade Dispute"
  • "The Pirate of the Round Pond"
  • "A Victim of Bad Luck"
  • "The New Master"
  • "A New Murder"
  • "A Tale of Revenge"
  • "The Speech"
  • "The Lost Scientist"
  • "The Unwritten Thriller"
  • "In Ravancore"
  • "Among the Bean Rows"
  • "The Death-Watch Beetle"
  • "Murder by Lightning"
  • "The Murder in Netherby Gardens"
  • "The Shield of Athene"

References[]

  • Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 28. ISBN 0-8108-2714-X.


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