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.[citation needed]
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
Joshi, S. T. (1993). Lord Dunsany: a Bibliography / by S. T. Joshi and Darrell Schweitzer. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 28. ISBN0-8108-2714-X.