Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

Infobox Book
name = Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration of the first US edition
author = Agatha Christie
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Detective fiction
short stories
publisher = Dodd, Mead and Company
release_date = 1950
media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 250 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = Crooked House
followed_by = A Murder is Announced

"Three Blind Mice and Other Stories" is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950 [http://home.insightbb.com/~jsmarcum/agatha45.htm American Tribute to Agatha Christie] ] . The first edition retailed at $2.50.

The later collections "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" (1960), "Poirot's Early Cases" (1974), "Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories" (1979), and "Problem at Pollensa Bay" (1992) reprint between them all the stories in this collection except the title story "Three Blind Mice" - which is an alternate version of the play "The Mousetrap" and which is the only Christie short story not to have been published in the UK.

List of stories

*1948 "Three Blind Mice"
*1944 "Strange Jest"
*1942 "The Tape-Measure Murder"
*1942 "The Case of the Perfect Maid"
*1942 "The Case of the Caretaker"
*1929 "The Third Floor Flat"
*1923 "The Adventure of Johnny Waverly"
*1941 "Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds"
*1926 "The Love Detectives"

Publication history

*1948, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1948, Hardback, 250 pp
*1952, Dell Books, Paperback, 224 pp, (Dell number 633 [mapback] )
*1960, Dell Books, Paperback, as "The Mousetrap and other stories", (Dell number D354)

First publication of stories in the U.S.

* "The Adventure of Johnny Waverly": June 1925 (Volume XLI, Number 2)issue of the "Blue Book Magazine" with an unncredited illustration.

* "The Love Detectives": October 30, 1926 (Volume XIX, Number 3) issue of "Flynn's Weekly" under the title "At the Crossroads" with uncredited illustrations.

* "The Third Floor Flat": January 5, 1929 (Volume CVI, Number 6) issue of "Detective Story Magazine" under the slightly different title "In the Third Floor Flat" with an uncredited illustration.

* "Four and Twenty Blackbirds": November 9, 1940 (Volume 106, Number 19) issue of "Collier's" magazine with illustrations by Mario Cooper.

* "Strange Jest": November 2, 1941 issue of the weekly newspaper supplement "This Week" magazine under the title "A Case of Buried Treasure."

* "The Tape-Measure Murder": November 16, 1941 issue of the weekly newspaper supplement "This Week" magazine with an illustration by Arthur Sarnoff.

* "The Case of the Caretaker": July 5, 1942 edition of the "Chicago Sunday Tribune".

* "The Case of the Perfect Maid": September 13, 1942 edition of the "Chicago Sunday Tribune".

* "Three Blind Mice": May 1948 (Volume 124, Number 5) issue of "Cosmopolitan" magazine with uncredited illustrations.

For first publications in the UK, see the applicable UK collections referenced above.

References

External links

* [http://us.agathachristie.com/site/find_a_story/stories/Three_Blind_Mice_and_Other_Stories.php.php "Three Blind Mice and Other Stories"] at the official Agatha Christie website