The Sleuth Slayers (short story)

The Sleuth Slayers was the third story in the anthology Wildthyme on Top. It was written by Jake Elliot.
== Summary ==
Iris Wildthyme joins in on the investigation of the murders of the country's amateur detectives.
== Characters ==
* Iris Wildthyme
* Tom
* Man with bowler hat
* Georgie Price Jones
* Miss Jane
* Professor Proven
* Mr Sherrinford
* Hercule Smith
* Mrs H
* Dmitri
== Worldbuilding ==
* Miss Jane was investigating the murder of Dr Gorley Herring at Betteredge Hall.
* Professor Proven references and . He has a Cluedo game.
* Iris and her friends celebrate solving the murders with champagne.
== Notes ==
* 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 ?), a retired policeman called Cuff who was smothered by his roses (), 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 ?) 
* A small man in clerical dress with a blank, unprepossessing face () briefly appears.
* A number of detectives make unnamed cameo appearances at the restaurant: a suave-looking man doodling stick figures with halos (), a middle-aged couple who address each other as "old bean" and "old thing" () and a vague-looking man wearing horn-rimmed glasses ().
== Continuity ==
to be added
Category:Wildthyme on Top short stories
Category:Stories set in England
Category:Stories set in the 20th century