Montague Egg is a fictional amateur detective from the pen of Dorothy L. Sayers, English crime writer from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Egg is a travelling salesman for an importer and distributor of fine wines and spirits who occasionally links a casual observation with a recent newspaper headline proclaiming some crime or witnesses the discovery of a murdered body. The plots of these mysteries are typically neat puzzles and Egg conveniently uses his sophisticated knowledge of some fine trades he picked up during his unconventional career.

Table of Contents:

The Poisoned Dow '08

Sleuths on the Scent

Murder in the Morning

One Too Many

Murder at Pentecost

Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz

A Shot at Goal

Dirt Cheap

Bitter Almonds

False Weight

The Professor's Manuscript