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Latest revision as of 20:22, 3 November 2024
The Sleuth Slayers was the third story in the anthology Wildthyme on Top. It was written by Jake Elliot.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Iris Wildthyme joins in on the investigation of the murders of the country's amateur detectives.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Iris Wildthyme
- Tom
- Man with bowler hat
- Georgie Price Jones
- Miss Jane
- Professor Proven
- Mr Sherrinford
- Hercule Smith
- Mrs H
- Dmitri
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Miss Jane was investigating the murder of Dr Gorley Herring at Betteredge Hall.
- Professor Proven references Professor Fen and Ronald Knox. He has a Cluedo game.
- Iris and her friends celebrate solving the murders with champagne.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The man, whose name is never given, is implicitly John Steed from The Avengers. His partner, Georgie Price Jones, worked with Steed in the Avengers episode The Girl from AUNTIE.
- The amateur detectives are all pastiches of famous literary detectives: Miss Jane of Miss Marple, Hercule Smith of Hercule Poirot, and Mr Sherrinford of Sherlock Holmes.
- Among the murdered detectives are: a travelling French detective found dead in mysterious circumstances (possibly Jules Maigret?), a retired policeman called Cuff who was smothered by his roses (Sergeant Cuff), a part-time solicitor-detective who was gassed in his chambers (possibly Martin Hewitt?) and a dabbling aristocrat who was crushed under some rare books (possibly Lord Peter Wimsey?)
- A small man in clerical dress with a blank, unprepossessing face (Father Brown) briefly appears.
- A number of detectives make unnamed cameo appearances at the restaurant: a suave-looking man doodling stick figures with halos (Simon Templar), a middle-aged couple who address each other as "old bean" and "old thing" (Tommy and Tuppence) and a vague-looking man wearing horn-rimmed glasses (Albert Campion).
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
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