Two Bottles of Relish by Lord Dunsany
Dave in Toronto
wished to read it again but unfortunately it wasn't (and isn't) on-
line. While browsing the net recently though I did come across this:
"Good news and bad news. Good news is, as you probably suspect, that
there's a ton of anthologies that include the story. Bad news is that
the only Dunsany collection to do so is THE LITTLE TALES OF SMETHERS,
which is a scarce one-- UK hardcover eds only, originally in 1952
and a reprint in 1978. ABEbooks and Bookfinder.com show some copies,
but the cheapest is around $50. (SMETHERS is more or less Dunsany's
crime collection, including a few other cases of the "Relish" pair
of detectives.)
It's also in these magazines: TIME AND TIDE for 12 Nov and 19 Nov,
1932; STORY #43 (Feb 1936); ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE for
March 1951; SUSPENSE (British) for Dec. 1959; and in these
anthologies:
POWERS OF DARKNESS ed anon (1934)
101 YEAR'S ENTERTAINMENT ed Ellery Queen (1946 and reprints)
TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH ed Whit Burnett (1943)
THE STORY POCKET BOOK ed Whit Burnett (1944)
ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FIRESIDE BOOK OF SUSPENSE ed AH (1947)
THE UNEXPECTED ed Bennett Cerf (1948) and in later pb
STORIES SELECTED FROM THE UNEXPECTED
TALES TO BE TOLD IN THE DARK ed Basil Davenport (1953)
STORIES FOR THE DEAD OF NIGHT ed Don Congdon (1957)
TALL STORIES ed Eric Duthie (1959) pb reprint as TALL SHORT STORIES
THIRD PAN BOOK OF HORROR STORIES ed Herbert Van Thal (1962)
STORIES OF SUSPENSE ed Mary MacEwen (1963)
THE MODERN SHORT STORY IN THE MAKING ed Whit and Hallie Burnett (1964)
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES 2 ed. Edmund Crispin (1964)
STORY JUBILEE ed Whit and Hallie Burnett (1965)
GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES ed Rosamund Morris (1965)
OWL'S WATCH ed George Brandon Saul (1965)
13 WAYS TO DISPOSE OF A BODY ed Basil Davenport (1966)
MASTERPIECES OF HORROR ed Rosamund Morris (1966)
THIRTEEN CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORIES ed Arthur Liebman (1974)
A MYSTERY READER ed Nancy Ellen Talburt and Lyna Lee Montgomery (1973)
CRIMES AND CLUES ed Stephen P Clarke (1978)
STORY AND STRUCTURE ed Laurence Perrine (1978)
MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY: CHERISHED CLASSICS ed Ellery Queen (1978)
GREAT SHORT TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR ed Reader's Digest Condensed
Books (1982)
DEATH ed Stuart Schiff (1982)
65 GREAT MURDER MYSTERIES ed Mary Danby (1983)
GREAT MURDER MYSTERIES ed Mary Danby (1988)
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF HORROR STORIES ed J A Cuddon (1984)
THE MYSTERY HALL OF FAME ed Bill Pronzini et al (1984)
MUDER ON THE MENU ed. Carol-Lynn Waugh et al (1984)
PERFECT CRIMES: MY FAVORITE MYSTERY STORIES ed. Elliott Roosevelt
(1989)
GREAT BRITISH MYSTERY STORIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ed Anon (1990)
GREAT IRISH DETECTIVE STORIES ed Peter Haining (1993)
50 GREATEST MYSTERIES OF ALL TIME ed Otto Penzler (1998)
Almost all of the above presumably out of print, but many should be
findable fairly easily on used market. I think the only Dunsany
collections currently in print are THE HASHISH MAN (1996), THE
COMPLETE PEGANA (1998), and TIME AND THE GODS (the last only in
the UK), and all of these are fantasy collections.
Cheers,
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu "
Happy hunting.
Dave in Toronto
jimbairn
> Cheers,
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> Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu "
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> Happy hunting.
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> Dave in Toronto
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OT but I wonder if this is the Dennis Lien I knew briefly through SF
fandom in the early eighties.He was from Minneapolis and I stayed
briefly with him and his partner when jaunting around after the 1980
Worldcon.
JimB
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