The Under Dog and Other Stories

The Under Dog and Other Stories  

Dust-jacket illustration of the first US edition
Author(s) Agatha Christie
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Detective fiction
short stories
Publisher Dodd, Mead and Company
Publication date 1951
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 248 pp
ISBN NA
Preceded by They Came to Baghdad
Followed by Mrs McGinty's Dead

The Under Dog and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1951[1]. The first edition retailed at $2.50[1].

It contains works from the early days of Christie's career, all featuring Hercule Poirot. All the stories were published in British and American magazines between 1923 and 1926. The title story appeared in book form in England for the first time in the 1960 collection, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding. The other stories were to appear again in 1974 in the British and American collections, Poirot's Early Cases.

Contents

List of stories

Publication history

First publication of stories

With the exception of The Under Dog, all of the stories were first published in the UK in The Sketch magazine (see Poirot's Early Cases for details).

All the remaining stories in the collection were first published in the US in the monthly Blue Book Magazine with uncredited illustrations as follows:

References

  1. ^ a b American Tribute to Agatha Christie
  2. ^ The English Catalogue of Books. Vol XII (A-L: January 1926 – December 1930). Kraus Reprint Corporation, Millwood, New York, 1979 (page 316)

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