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loved this collection of short stories by Dorothy Sayers more particularly the ones that are not Wimsey or Montague Egg, They are probably my favourite Sayers' stories, I picked up thiscompilation ofshort mysteries by a true master of the form, Dorothy Sayers, at a second hand sale, thinking it was one novel.
I generally don't read shot stories, but since I had it, Because of the scope and variety of story plots, cleverness, and high standard of writing I was pleasantly surprised with each and every one of these little gems.
A mixed bag of Sayers short stories whodunnits and

mysteries, a mixture of her novels, and of the more chilling works of Patricia Highsmith and Raoul Dahl.
Most enjoyable, if disconcerting!

The GR blurb:

All that was left of the garage was a heap of charred and smouldering beams.
In the driving seat of the burntout car were the remains of a body, . .
An accident, said the police,
An accident, said the widow, She had been warning her husband about the danger of the car for months,
Murder, said the famous detective Lord Peter Wimseyand proceeded to track down the killer,
This is vintage Sayers, a collection of her finest crime and detection stories, A disappointing collection of short stories from Dorothy L, Sayers. While a couple of the mysteries involve Lord Peter, the majority feature Montague Egg, another detective, or no detective at all, Maybe I'm just burned out on short stories at the moment, but I really did not enjoy this collection, The ones featuring Wimsey and Egg seem more developed than the rest, perhaps because readers of previous Sayers works know these detectives.
In the Teeth of the Evidence is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L Sayers, The cover features Lord Peter Wimsey's name prominently and the edition I had has the same Elizabeth George introduction as the recent editions of the Wimsey novels, but in fact only two of the stories feature Wimsey.
Several more feature the travelling salesman Montague Egg whose frequent references to the Salesman's Handbook set me musing about a Ferengi detective who frequently refers to the Laws of Acquisition, and about half of the stories are standalones, several quite creepy and Gothic in tone and including a couple which definitely verge on the supernatural.
I prefer my detective fiction novellength really, but this was quite good fun, Only two Peter Wimsey stories with several Montague Egg stories with his trusty The Salesmans Handbook, There are also several standalone stories, My favourite was An Arrow Oer the House and a would be writers promotion of himself go hilariously wrong, The Milk Bottles about full milk bottles on a doorstep with a horrible smell coming from the apartment was also amusing,

I enjoyed these stories and his Sayers does the unexpected with some marvellous twists,

In the teeth of evidence where a dentist gets his just desserts,

Absolutely Elsewhere where a murder is solved by phone,

A Shot at Goal where Egg works out the murderer from a torn bit of writing,

Dirt cheap a story of greed and a clock,

Bitter Almonds where spirits in thes could be deadly, I will avoid the liqueur Noyeau,

False weight where a clock once again helps Egg identify the murderer,

The Professors Manuscript where Egg loses a client but finds a swindler,

The Milk Bottles is about suspicious minds,

Dilemma where a tall story helps a man who feels guilty about a man who saved valuable papers but not a drunken butler.


An Arrow Oer the House, An hilarious story about an author and his self promotion going wrong,

Scrawns a gothic house with strange inhabitants and a new maid with an over active imagination,

Nebuchadnezzar where a murderers guilt and an amateur play send him over the edge,

The Inspiration of Mr Budd where a barber with a knowledge of chemistry helps catch and hilariously identify a murderer.


Blood Sacrifice where a successful playwright gets out of success, Very odd.

Suspicion where Mr Mummery finds out his cook is not an arsenic poisoner, But his wife maybe not so innocent,

The Leopard Lady where murder for hire eliminates a young heir,

The Cyprian Cat a supernatural tale to end the series of short stories, Where a mans discomfort of cats gets him likely hanged,
This rating only refers to my impressions for the Lord Peter Wimsey stories, as they were the only ones I read This is an easy read comprised of short stories starring Lord Peter Wimsey, Montague Egg, and other assorted protagonists.
Some really good little stories and a couple which make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, Not your typical Dorothy Sayres but a good second book, Only Two Wimsey Shorts, Five with Montague Egg, several miscellaneous
the Hodder amp Stoughton paperback editionof theoriginal In the Teeth of Evidence was a great collection of short stories, some of them featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and some with Montague Egg.
A few of the stories were creepy with endings that weren't so happy such as "The Cyprian Cat", "The Leopard Lady" and "Blood Sacrifice".
In the Teeth of the Evidence
Lord Peter Wimsey tags along to a dental identification of a burned body only to discover that not everything is what it seems.


I mean, the title gives it away and Peter is not truly a key participant in this case, but its still a fun little adventure for the golden boy of detective nonsense.
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Absolutely Elsewhere
Peters brotherinlaw invites him to listen in on a murder case, makes a snappish comment about relativity and absolute distance, and then slamdunks the metaphor later.


Smart, sassy, and far into the dramatics: this is why I adore Peter Wimsey, Just swanning into a room of people to make his point in the most ridiculously overthetop way possible, Very nice.stars.

A Shot at Goal
Monty Egg returns to point out that a laborer is probably not writing in harried purple capital letters and is therefore innocent.


Am I supposed to know that this particular profession often misspelled gauge as guagestars,

Dirt Cheap
Egg is startled awake in the night only to discover the next morning that hes overheard the murder of his roomneighbor.


Am I supposed to be impressed that Egg is weirdly into clocksstars,

Bitter Almonds
Egg figures out that a sexist grump probably didnt die from drinking a liquor that he proclaims as a “drink for ladies”.


Am I supposed to know what the fuck Noyaux isstars,

False Weight
Egg figures out a tipped over clock is SUSPICIOUS because of WEIGHTS,

Am I supposed to be able to follow the workings of a strange clock from that basic af description ALSO HES STILL WEIRDLY INTO CLOCKSstars.


The Professors Manuscript
Egg thinks an old man is suspicious because of books,

Am I supposed to find hairy men suspicious nowstars,

The MilkBottles
A newspaperman inadvertently gets a neighborhood up in arms when milk bottles begin to collect on a quiet stoop.


The twist made me laugh out loud, but man was that some heavy handed foreshadowing nonsense,stars.

Dilemma
Drunk men are racist before examining dilemmas that are, to their racist asses, more challenging than NOT KILLING OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.


Seriously, though: this racist af, It literally opens with a debate about killing “Chinamen” for money, before descending into nword territory, NOT GREAT.star.

An Arrow Oer the House
An author proceeds down a dubious path of advertisement for his overwritten books that results in DEATH.


MORE DICKHEADS!!! YAYstars,

Scrawns
A new housemaid jumps to conclusions and flees her employers house in terror,

I dont know if we were meant to end up amused at Susans assumptions, but I did notstar,

Nebuchadnezzar
A charades game works wonders on a mans tumultuous conscience,

Had to google the answer a classics scholar I am not but still dark af,.stars.

The Inspiration of Mr Budd
A barber meets a new customer,

I did actually laugh aloud at this one: good for Mr, Buddstars.

Blood Sacrifice
A theater owner/actor gets injured and the playwright who hates him must save his life

OR DOES HE horrifying, and also HORRIFYING.
stars.

Suspicion
A man fears poisoning!

OH HOW THE TURNS HAVE TABLED, horrifying, but not bad.stars.

The Leopard Lady
A man hires Smith amp Smith Removers to Remove his nephew,

Twisty and dark and horrifying, JFC.stars.

The Cyprian Cat
A man gives his explanation for how he came to commit murder, He alleges he shot at a cat,

He needs you to know that there was NOTHING going on and also he HATES cats, Which means hes basically trash,.star.
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