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1 Sayers, Dorothy L[eigh] In the Teeth of The Evidence and Other Stories
London Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1939 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 
"Dorothy L. Sayers' short stories about sleuth Montague Egg are some of her best works. They are the Sayers stories that most consistently have puzzle plots, and good ones too. Sayers wrote eleven Montague Egg stories; they are the first six tales listed under Hangman's Holiday, and the first five under In the Teeth of the Evidence. These tales are among the best pure detective stories that Sayers wrote. Most of the tales reflect realist school paradigms of detective fiction. Several of the best of these tales center around clocks and alibis. The stories seem to come in series. 1) There are two poisoned liquor stories, "The Poisoned Dow '08" and "Bitter Almonds" (1939). 2) Two tales are set in public rooms in British pubs, solved in part by discussion among the guests, "Sleuths on the Scent" and "A Shot at Goal". These stories involve identifying people through clues to their professions. Similar mystery ideas are at the core of "The Professor's Manuscript" (1939). 3) Two tales involve time and alibis at country inns, "Dirt Cheap" (1936) and "False Weight", and a third "Murder in the Morning" is related in alibi technique, although it has a setting involving road travel. 4) The most complex stories are "One Too Many" and "Murder at Pentecost". They show the "breakdown of identity" approach common in the realist school (and discussed in detail on the article on realist fiction). In general, many of Sayers' best plots are found among her shorter fiction. They tend to have real puzzle plots, in the sense of a initial, well defined mysterious situation that ultimately reaches a clever solution. The other most important puzzle plots in Sayers are found in three later Lord Peter Wimsey tales, "The Queen's Square" (1932), "Absolutely Elsewhere" (1933), and "The Haunted Policeman" (1938). The three stories remind one of Christie, Crofts' The Cask, and Freeman's "Phyllis Annesley's Peril", respectively. "The Queen's Square" employs that Christie staple, the costume party, although Sayers explicitly eschews Christie's trademark, the Harlequin costume, noting on the opening page of her tale that no one is dressed as Pierrot or Columbine. The similarity to Christie is a one time affair, while the influence of Freeman and Crofts is a constant in Sayers' work. " Very good black cloth. Slight wear and soiling. Clean interior good binding. 1939, 8vo, [7], 8-286pp. 
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