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The Bookseller

Roald Dahl

First published January 1987
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"London bookseller William Buggage and his assistant, Miss Tottle, have been swindling the widows of prominent men by sending fake invoices for pornographic literature supposedly purchased by their recently deceased husbands. The embarrassed widows pay the bill to avoid a public scandal. Buggage is foiled when one of his intended victims points out that her late husband was actually blind." (Wikipedia)

First published in Playboy, April 1978.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1987 Playboy, January 1987 Playboy MAGAZINE 122
August 1990 Cover The Best of Roald Dahl Vintage Books Collection
September 1991 The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl Michael Joseph Omnibus 711
1995 Cover Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection 59
October 1996 Cover The Best of Playboy Fiction, V. 2 Playboy Audio Anthology
October 2006 Cover Collected Stories Alfred A. Knopf Collection 803