The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories explained

The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories
Author:	Lord Dunsany
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Fantasy, crime fiction
Publisher:	Jarrolds
Release Date:	1952
Media Type:	Print (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 all of his tales of the character Mr Smethers, one being 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.

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

• Book: Joshi, S. T. . S. T. Joshi

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