Volume 223 Issue 7, 13 October 2017
The Dentistry in Literature series: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
For the cover series of this volume (223) of the BDJ, we have chosen to illustrate various instances where dentistry or teeth feature in literature. A wide range of sources have been considered — from well-known 'great works' to more obscure authors, older texts to modern novels and from mentions of dentists to descriptions of some very unusual teeth!
This cover of this issue features Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery One, Two, Buckle My Shoe which concerns the untimely death of Poirot's own dentist, Henry Morley. The plot sees us find the dentist dead in his surgery with a blackened hole below his right temple. Later, one of the dentistâs patients is found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic, and so everyone assumes a clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments? The plot thickens... can Poirot find the key to the puzzle?
Credit: Illustration by Matthew Laznicka
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