Tregaron author Tommy Ellis reads from his and his wife Margot's new book

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00:00Grizzly Deeds, Volume 1. Dead Man's Teeth, written by Tommy and Margot Ellis.

00:10Craven Street, a cannibal hanged! shouted the paperboy. Read all about it!

00:18Henry Harrison sidestepped the urchin, swerved around a costumonger's barrow full of apples,

00:24and entered the calm of the toothpuller's shop.

00:28Oh, hello, he said to the slight man in the blood-stained smock.

00:33I need some dentures.

00:35Ah, well, the man stroked his wispy goatee.

00:40You've come to the right place.

00:43Yes, you have.

00:45He led Henry to a glass-fronted cabinet full of false teeth.

00:50I can offer the budget range.

00:52Made of oak, they are.

00:53Yes, they are.

00:56Wooden teeth?

00:58Some of the regulars down at the dockside tavern had them.

01:02They seemed to work all right,

01:04but Henry always thought they looked like a mouthful of mini-cabinets.

01:08No.

01:10What's the next range up?

01:12Well, sir, these are made from whalebone.

01:15Very strong, they are.

01:16Yes, they are.

01:18They almost look like real teeth.

01:22Almost.

01:23That was the operative word.

01:25Not quite would have been a more accurate description.

01:29He imagined himself accidentally smiling and grimaced involuntarily.

01:34Each tooth should have had an epitaph engraved on it.

01:38No, no, I think I'll have...

01:42He scanned the cabinet's contents until he spotted the perfect set.

01:49Those at the bottom, those on the right,

01:52whoever had made them had done a splendid job.

01:56Perfectly lined up, they looked as though they'd come from a real person.

02:00Actually, when he thought about it properly,

02:03he was sure they came from the same person.

02:06A uniform yellow from a lifetime of pipe tobacco,

02:10they looked absolutely stunning.