Two Bottles of Relish : The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories

Lord Dunsany mixes reality with fantasy in this forgotten collection of modern detective stories. Some are macabre, others have a lighter and more amusing touch, but every story stimulates the imagination and reveals the acknowledged master of the short story at his very best.

SMETHERS is a travelling salesman for Numnumo, who make a relish for meats and savouries. He shares a flat with an Oxford graduate called Linley, who fancies himself as a detective and to whom Scotland Yard is inclined to turn if they encounter a particularly challenging mystery. When a pretty young girl disappears and her lodger is suspected of murdering her, two bottles of Numnumo relish are the only clues, and Smethers is sent to gather more information . . .

Amongst the hundreds of fantasy stories for which the Irish dramatist, poet and writer Lord Dunsany became deservedly famous there was one solitary little book of detective stories. Selected by Ellery Queen as an ‘unequivocal keystone’ in the history of crime writing, this quirky collection is a mixture of the masterful and the macabre, a book that lovers of detective stories and tales of the unexpected will want to savour.


  1. La espada de Welleran

    lord Dunsany

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  2. A Dreamer's Tales

    lord Dunsany, Sheba Blake

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  3. Fifty-Ones Tales

    lord Dunsany

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  4. La hija del rey del País de los Elfos

    lord Dunsany

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  5. 7 best short stories by Lord Dunsany

    lord Dunsany, August Nemo

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  6. Two classic novels Pìsces will love

    Virginia Woolf, lord Dunsany, August Nemo

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  7. Essential Novelists - Lord Dunsany : the father of fantasy

    lord Dunsany

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  8. 3 Books To Know Fantasy Literature

    lord Dunsany, George MacDonald, William Morris, August Nemo

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  9. The King of Elfland's Daughter

    lord Dunsany

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  10. The Time and the Gods

    lord Dunsany

    audiobook
  11. Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 2

    August Nemo, Mary Shelley, D. H. Lawrence, Ellis Parker Butler, Anthony Trollope, Zona Gale, Emma Orczy, Don Marquis, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kathleen Norris, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Honoré de Balzac, M. R. James, Banjo Paterson, Bret Harte, Henry Lawson, W. W. Jacobs, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mary E. Freeman, L. Frank Baum, O.Henry, William Dean Howells, T. S. Arthur, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Barr, Lafcadio Hearn, Giovanni Verga, Hamlin Garland, Émile Zola, Stewart Edward White, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, George Ade, Robert W. Chambers, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Ruth McEnery Stuart, lord Dunsany, George Gissing, Théophile Gautier, Paul Heyse, Selma Lagerlöf, Thomas Burke, Edith Nesbit, Arthur Morrison, Saki (H.H. Munro), Stacy Aumonier, John Galsworthy, Ernest Bramah

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  12. Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 8

    Émile Zola, Stewart Edward White, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, George Ade, Robert W. Chambers, George Gissing, lord Dunsany, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, August Nemo

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