In the Teeth of the Evidence
1939 short story collection by Dorothy Sayers
In the Teeth of the Evidence is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers first published by Victor Gollancz in 1939. The book's title is taken from the first story in the collection.
Contents
- Lord Peter Wimsey stories:
- "In the Teeth of the Evidence" – A dentist is poisoned and dies in a car fire, supposedly by suicide or accident, but Wimsey suspects murder and identity fraud.
- "Absolutely Elsewhere" – Wealthy debt-collector Mr. Grimbold is murdered, but all the suspects have alibis related to a series of phone calls, which Wimsey and Parker must unravel.
- Montague Egg stories:
- "A Shot at Goal" – Mr. Egg is drawn into a murder mystery revolving around a heated football controversy.
- "Dirt Cheap" – A fellow traveling salesman is murdered for his jewelry case, and the evidence of Mr. Egg's clock helps to avenge him.
- "Bitter Almonds" – An old gentleman's death causes great embarrassment for Mr. Egg when one of his own wines is involved.
- "False Weight" – Mr. Egg investigates another fellow traveling salesman's death, this time with bigamy as the motive.
- "The Professor's Manuscript" – Ill-fitting false teeth and a strange set of old books tip Mr. Egg off that something is not right with one of his new clients.
- Other stories:
- "The Milk-Bottles" – A terrible smell and accumulating milk bottles cause neighbors to think a quarrelsome neighbor has murdered his wife.
- "Dilemma" – Two men exchange stories of doubt, one a doctor who saved a vital manuscript on sleeping sickness instead of a drunken butler in a fire, and the other a detective who saved a delinquent child in a fire instead of the evidence that would get an accused man acquitted.
- "An Arrow O'er the House" – A devoted secretary and her author employer find themselves embroiled in a mystery eerily similar to something he wrote.
- "Scrawns" – A young lady is given a job in a house with some terrifying fellow servants.
- "Nebuchadnezzar" – An elaborate, Biblical-themed game of charades causes a man with a guilty secret to suspect someone knows what he has done.
- "The Inspiration of Mr. Budd"- An impoverished hairdresser desperate for clients must make a terrible choice when he realizes his latest client is a wanted murderer.
- "Blood Sacrifice" – A playwright tricked by a legal contract into drastically altering his beloved script finds himself in the position of having to save the life of the man who deceived him.
- "Suspicion" – A man suspects a woman of murder but has no proof.
- "The Leopard Lady" – A sinister removal van sparks a mystery.
- "The Cyprian Cat" – A supernatural story in which a man who fears cats encounters a woman who behaves like one, and a strange feral cat that seems to be haunting him.
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Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Lord Peter Wimsey
- Harriet Vane
- Mervyn Bunter
- Miss Climpson
- Charles Parker
- Duke of Denver (family title)
- Whose Body? (1923)
- Clouds of Witness (1926)
- Unnatural Death (1927)
- The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
- Strong Poison (1931)
- The Five Red Herrings (1931)
- Have His Carcase (1932)
- Murder Must Advertise (1933)
- The Nine Tailors (1934)
- Gaudy Night (1935)
- Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
- Lord Peter Views the Body (1928)
- Hangman's Holiday (1933)
- In the Teeth of the Evidence (1939)
- Striding Folly (1972)
- Lord Peter (1972)
- The Wimsey Papers in The Spectator (1939-1940)
Jill Paton Walsh
- Thrones, Dominations (1998; based on unfinished manuscript by Sayers)
- A Presumption of Death (2002)
- The Attenbury Emeralds (2010)
- The Late Scholar (2013)
- The Silent Passenger (1935 film)
- Busman's Honeymoon (1940 film)
- Lord Peter Wimsey (1972 television series)
- Lord Peter Wimsey (1973 radio series)
- A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987 television series)
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