The Hound of Death

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Title The Hound of Death

Dust-jacket of the first edition of The Hound of Death
Author	Agatha Christie
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Detective fiction short stories
Publisher	Odhams Press
Released	1933
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	247 pp
ISBN	NA (first edition), ISBN 0-00-715487-9 (recent paperback edition)

The Hound of Death and Other Stories is a collection of twelve short stories by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom in 1933. Only in 1948 were some of these stories published in America in the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.

As with some of her other short story collections, most of these are tales of fate and the supernatural.

This book is notable for including the first appearance of Christie's famous story The Witness for the Prosecution. The author subsequently wrote a play based on this story which has twice been adapted for film.

[edit] List of Stories

•  ???? The Hound of Death
• 1924 The Red Signal
• 1925 The Fourth Man
•  ???? The Gipsy
•  ???? The Lamp
• 1926 Wireless (a.k.a. Where There's a Will)
• 1933 The Witness for the Prosecution
• 1933 The Mystery of the Blue Jar
•  ???? The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
•  ???? The Call of Wings
•  ???? The Last Seance (a.k.a. The Stolen Ghost)
• 1926 SOS

[edit] References

• Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 77. 

Agatha Christie
Detectives: Hercule Poirot • Miss Marple • Tommy and Tuppence • Ariadne Oliver • Arthur Hastings • Superintendent Battle • Chief Inspector Japp • Parker Pyne
Novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles • The Secret Adversary • Murder on the Links • The Man in the Brown Suit • The Secret of Chimneys • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • The Big Four • The Mystery of the Blue Train • The Seven Dials Mystery • The Murder at the Vicarage • The Sittaford Mystery • Peril at End House • Lord Edgware Dies • Murder on the Orient Express • Three Act Tragedy • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? • Death in the Clouds • The A.B.C. Murders • Murder in Mesopotamia • Cards on the Table • Death on the Nile • Dumb Witness • Appointment with Death • And Then There Were None • Murder is Easy • Hercule Poirot's Christmas • Sad Cypress • Evil Under the Sun • N or M? • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe • The Body in the Library • Five Little Pigs • The Moving Finger • Towards Zero • Sparkling Cyanide • Death Comes as the End • The Hollow • Taken at the Flood • Crooked House • A Murder is Announced • They Came to Baghdad • Mrs McGinty's Dead • They Do It with Mirrors • A Pocket Full of Rye • After the Funeral • Hickory Dickory Dock • Destination Unknown • Dead Man's Folly • 4.50 From Paddington • Ordeal by Innocence • Cat Among the Pigeons • The Pale Horse • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side • The Clocks • A Caribbean Mystery • At Bertram's Hotel • Third Girl • Endless Night • By the Pricking of My Thumbs • Hallowe'en Party • Passenger to Frankfurt • Nemesis • Elephants Can Remember • Postern of Fate • Curtain • Sleeping Murder
As Mary Westmacott: Giant's Bread • Unfinished Portrait • Absent in the Spring • The Rose and the Yew Tree • A Daughter's a Daughter • The Burden
Short story collections: Poirot Investigates • Partners in Crime • The Mysterious Mr. Quin • The Hound of Death • The Thirteen Problems • Parker Pyne Investigates • The Listerdale Mystery • Murder in the Mews • The Regatta Mystery • The Labours of Hercules • Poirot's Early Cases • The Harlequin Tea Set
Plays: Akhnaton • The Mousetrap • Witness for the Prosecution • Verdict • Rule of Three • Fiddlers Three