The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
First edition
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| Author | Agatha Christie |
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| Cover artist | Paul Galdone |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre |
Detective fiction short story |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead and Company |
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Publication date
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1948 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 272 pp |
| Preceded by | Taken at the Flood |
| Followed by | The Rose and the Yew Tree |
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1948. The first edition retailed at $2.50. The story The Second Gong features Hercule Poirot, the only character in the stories who appears in any other of Christie's works.
Each story, has also appeared in either of the UK collections The Hound of Death, The Listerdale Mystery or Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories and therefore this collection was not published in the UK. Some of the stories are fantasy fiction rather than mysteries.
The first US magazine publication of all the stories has not been fully documented. A partial listing is as follows:
In addition, the following were published unillustrated in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine:
For first publications in the UK, see the applicable UK collections referenced above.
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