The Under Dog and Other Stories is a short story

Short Stories

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 collection written by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...

 and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company

Dodd, Mead and Company

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 in 1951

1951 in literature

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. The first edition retailed at $2.50.

It contains works from the early days of Christie's career, all featuring Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.Poirot has been portrayed on...

. 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 Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on October 24 1960. It is the only Christie first edition published in the UK that contains stories with both Hercule...

. The other stories were to appear again in 1974 in the British and American collections, Poirot's Early Cases

Poirot's Early Cases

Poirot's Early Cases is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in September 1974. The book retailed at £2.25...

.

List of stories

• The Under Dog
• The Plymouth Express
• The Affair at the Victory Ball
• The Market Basing Mystery
• The Lemesurier Inheritance
• The Cornish Mystery
• The King of Clubs
• The Submarine Plans
• The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

Publication history

• 1951, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1951, Hardback, 248 pp
• 1955, Pocket Books
  Pocket Books
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   (New York), Paperback, 164 pp
• 1965, Dell Books, Paperback, 192 pp, (Dell number 9228)

First publication of stories

With the exception of The Under Dog, all of the stories were first published in the UK in The Sketch

The Sketch

The Sketch was a British illustrated newspaper weekly, which focused on high society and the aristocracy. It ran for 2,989 issues between February 1, 1893 and June 17, 1959. It was published by the Illustrated London News Company and was primarily a society magazine with regular features on royalty...

magazine (see Poirot's Early Cases for details).

• The Under Dog was first published in the US in Volume 8, Number 6 of Mystery Magazine dated April 1, 1926. It was published in the UK in the October 1926 edition of The London Magazine and then in book form in 2 New Crime Stories, published by The Reader's Library in September 1929 (the other story in the volume was Blackman's Wood by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  E. Phillips Oppenheim
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  ) and then in the Collins Crime Club
  Collins Crime Club
  The Collins Crime Club was an imprint of UK book publishers William Collins & Co Ltd and ran from May 6, 1930 to April 1994. Customers registered their name and address with the club and were sent a newsletter every three months which advised them of the latest books which had been or were to be...
  
   collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
  The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
  The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on October 24 1960. It is the only Christie first edition published in the UK that contains stories with both Hercule...
  
  (1960).

All the remaining stories in the collection were first published in the US in the monthly Blue Book Magazine

Blue Book (magazine)

Blue Book was a popular 20th-century American magazine with a lengthy 70-year run under various titles from 1905 to 1975.Launched as The Monthly Story Magazine, it was published under that title from May 1905 to August 1906 with a change to The Monthly Story Blue Book Magazine for issues from...

with uncredited illustrations as follows:

• The Affair at the Victory Ball: September 1923 - Volume 37, Number 5
• The King of Clubs: November 1923 - Volume 38, Number 1
• The Plymouth Express: January 1924 - Volume 38, Number 3 (under the title The Plymouth Express Affair). The plot was later reworked as the novel The Mystery of the Blue Train
  The Mystery of the Blue Train
  The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on March 29, 1928 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence and the US edition at...
  
  (1928).
• The Market Basing Mystery: May 1925 - Volume 41, Number 1
• The Submarine Plans: July 1925 - Volume 41, Number 3
• The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: September 1925 - Volume 41, Number 5 (under the title The Clapham Cook).
• The Cornish Mystery: October 1925 - Volume 41, Number 6
• The Lemesurier Inheritance: November 1925 - Volume 42, Number 1

External links

• The Under Dog and Other Stories at the official Agatha Christie website