The Landlady by Roald Dahl (1959)

 As close as any short story to being ‘perfect’, Dahl's most iconic adult work is a macarbe murder mystery condensed to a few dozen pages which will still send a wicked chill down your neck. You'll never book an AirBnb in quite the same way again.

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