THE GIPSY
First published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories (UK, 1933) and The Golden Ball and Other Stories (US, 1971).
PHILOMEL COTTAGE
First published in the UK in issue 237 of The Grand Magazine in November 1924. Reprinted in The Listerdale Mystery and Other Stories (UK, 1934) and The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (US, 1948).
THE LAMP
First published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories (UK, 1933) and The Golden Ball and Other Stories (US, 1971).
THE DREAM
First published in the UK in Strand Magazine No. 566 in February 1938, and in the US in The Saturday Evening Post Vol. 210, No. 17, on 23 October 1937. Reprinted in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (US, 1939) and The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées (UK, 1960).
WIRELESS
First published in the UK in the Sunday Chronicle Annual in autumn 1926, and in the US in Mystery Magazine on 1 March 1926. Reprinted in The Hound of Death and Other Stories (UK, 1933) and as ‘Where There’s a Will’ in The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (US, 1948).
THE WIFE OF THE KENITE
First published in Australia in The Home magazine in September 1922. Reprinted in Bodies from the Library (ed. Tony Medawar, UK, 2018).
THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE JAR
First published in the UK in issue 233 of The Grand Magazine in July 1924 and in the US in Metropolitan Magazine the same year. Reprinted in The Hound of Death and Other Stories (UK, 1933) and The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (US, 1948).
THE STRANGE CASE OF SIR ARTHUR CARMICHAEL
First published as ‘The Strange Case of Sir Andrew Carmichael’ in The Hound of Death and Other Stories (UK, 1933) and The Golden Ball and Other Stories (US, 1971).
THE BLUE GERANIUM
First published in the UK in issue 272 of The Royal Magazine in December 1929 and in the US in Pictorial Review Vol. 31, No. 5 in February 1930. Reprinted in The Thirteen Problems (UK, 1932) aka The Tuesday Club Murders (US, 1933).
THE CALL OF WINGS
First published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories (UK, 1933) and The Golden Ball and Other Stories (US, 1971).
THE FLOCK OF GERYON
First published in the UK in Strand Magazine No. 596 in August 1940, and in the US as ‘Weird Monster’ in This Week on 26 May 1940. Reprinted in The Labours of Hercules (UK, 1947) aka The Labors of Hercules (US, 1947).
THE RED SIGNAL
First published in issue 232 of The Grand Magazine in June 1924 and in the US in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 9, N. 43, in June 1947. Reprinted in The Hound of Death and Other Stories (UK, 1933) and The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (US, 1948).
THE DRESSMAKER’S DOLL
First published in Canada in the Star Weekly magazine on 25 October 1958, then in the UK in the December 1958 issue of Woman’s Journal, and in the US in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 33, No. 6, in June 1959. Reprinted in Double Sin and Other Stories (US, 1961) and Miss Marple’s Final Cases and Two Other Stories (UK, 1979).
THE HOUND OF DEATH
First published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories (UK, 1933) and The Golden Ball and Other Stories (US, 1971).
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