The Under Dog and Other Stories
Dust-jacket illustration of the first US edition
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| Author | Agatha Christie |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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Detective fiction short story |
| Publisher | Dodd Mead and Company |
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Publication date
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1951 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 248 pp |
| 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 United States in 1951, Dodd Mead and Company. The title story was published in booklet form along with Blackman's Wood (by E. Phillips Oppenheim) in the United Kingdom in 1929 by The Reader's Library.The first US edition retailed at $2.50.
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. All of the stories, save the title story, were to appear again in 1974 in Poirot's Early Cases.
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).
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