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Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of 16 short stories written by British author Roald Dahl and first published in 1979. All of the stories were earlier published in various magazines, and then in the collections Someone Like You and Kiss Kiss. [1]
Surprise! Surprise! A Collection of Mystery Stories with Unexpected Endings is a collection of twelve short stories written by Agatha Christie published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1965. [1] All of the stories in the collection have appeared in other short story collections.
More Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of nine short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1980 by Penguin . Five of the stories were published in prior collections, while the other four had not been previously collected in book form.
The story was adapted for Dahl's British TV series Tales of the Unexpected. Dahl included it in his short story collection Someone Like You. The narrative element of the housewife killing her husband and letting the policemen eat the evidence was used by Pedro Almodóvar in his 1984 movie What Have I Done to Deserve This?, with a leg of mutton.
Image credits: CommonTaytor #6. I’ll post something actually positive since everything else here is really depressing. I was really good friends with this guy in high school.
The story was adapted for television in a 1980 episode of Tales of the Unexpected (Season 3, Episode 4). [3] Norm Macdonald used the story as the basis of his 1998 film Dirty Work . References
A Standard Vanguard 6 as used by Boggis to transport the furniture in the Tales of the Unexpected episode. Boggis is a skilled antiques dealer who has a small shop in Chelsea, London. He manages to make a profit each year by buying valuable furniture cheaply from unsuspecting country people while posing as a clergyman and president of the ...
Galloping Foxley" is a short story by Roald Dahl first published in Town & Country in 1953. [1] It was included in the short-story collection Someone Like You, [2] and was later adapted into an episode of Tales of The Unexpected.
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