The Two Bottles of Relish (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Plot: Horror
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: Southern England
- Principal Characters: Smethers, Linley, Steeger, Inspector Ulton
- Genres: Short fiction, Horror literature
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Police, 1930’s, England or English people, Detectives, Cannibalism
- Locales: England
The Story
An affable, but not very bright, traveling salesperson named Smethers begins sharing a London flat with an Oxford-educated gentleman named Linley, who displays extraordinary mental gifts. (Their relationship is similar to that between Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.) One day Smethers calls his friend's attention to a newspaper account of a murder case that has the police baffled and challenges Linley to solve it.
A man named Steeger is suspected of murdering a pretty blond companion named Nancy Elth in order to get his hands on the money...
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