Montague Egg

Montague Egg is a star of a series of short stories by Dorothy L Sayers, better known for her Lord Peter Wimsey stories. Egg is a Traveling Salesman for Plummett & Rose Wines and Spirits, and usually has a couplet from his Salesman's Handbook to cover the situation. He is often embroiled in murder cases.

This series provides examples of:

 * Asshole Victim: False Weight
 * Bitter Almonds: Actually the title of one of his stories, where an elderly man was supposedly poisoned by his nephew after threatening to disown him over his engagement to an actress.
 * This is also a case of Ripped From the Headlines - such a liqueur actually did exist and at least one death was attributed to the phenomenon.
 * Crying Wolf: In one story, the murderer invokes this in order to get off the hook. It doesn't work.
 * Family Unfriendly Death/Nightmare Fuel
 * I Have Many Names: See Secret Other Family, below.
 * Kick the Dog: Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz
 * Once an Episode: A quote from the Salesman's Handbook.
 * Secret Other Family: Wagstaffe from False Weight had married a woman (using various aliases) in every town his rounds took him to.
 * Rouge Angles of Satin: A vital clue in 
 * Traveling Salesman
 * You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz,
 * You Just Told Me: