In The Teeth Of The Evidence

''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.

1939 short story collections
Short story collections by Dorothy L. Sayers
Victor Gollancz Ltd books

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