Il libraio che imbrogliò l'Inghilterra
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Mr. William Buggage and his secretary Miss Tottle run a secret business out of Buggage's Rare Book Shop in London. Every day they read the obituaries and draft custom invoices to send to the grieving widow. The invoices list various European books of pornography and sexual deviance. The horrified widows always pay quickly to keep the matter from the presses. Mr. Buggage and Miss Tottle have made thousands of pounds using this method, and they use their ill-gotten gains to take lavish trips together. But then, one day, they make a fatal error ...
Also contained in:
[Alle Verhalen](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24208237W)
[Best of Roald Dahl](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45879W/The_Best_of_Roald_Dahl)
[Collected Short Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL10561689W)
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I listened to the One Voice Recordings audiobook narrated by David Ian Davies.
Narration: incredibly flat. Occasionally Davies would raise his voice, but shouting doesn't help with emphasis. It's just frustrates the listener.
Yes, I've heard the Charles Dance one is great, but BBC took it down. I couldn't find it anywhere else.
Story: from what I could follow, this was a good short story. A bookseller cheats old widows out of money. But now the jig is up.
I'll keep an eye out for the BBC version. I'd like to reread this. I suspect it'd garner a higher rating.
Libricino che è piccolo solo nei suoi centimetri d'esistenza fisica, ma che trasborda certo al di fuori quando si cominciano a sfogliare le sue pagine. Due storie, molto diverse fra loro, che fanno passare veloce l'oretta scarsa in cui si fanno leggere e che lasciano il lettore con il sorriso sul volto, un sorriso più grande nella prima anche se forse un po' amaro e uno un po' più furbesco nel secondo se a ben scavare si cerca un indizio rivelatore. Ottima compagnia in una pausa da the.
