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Publication history

• 1936, Collins Crime Club (London), November 2, 1936, Hardcover, 288 pp
• 1937, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1937, Hardcover, 262 pp
• 1949, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 293 [mapback]), 190 pp
• 1951, Pan Books, Paperback, (Pan number 176), 186 pp
• 1957, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 192 pp
• 1968, Greenway edition of collected works (William Collins), Hardcover, 253 pp
• 1968, Greenway edition of collected works (Dodd Mead), Hardcover, 253 pp
• 1969, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 343 pp, ISBN 0-85-456695-3
• 2007, Poirot Facsimile Edition (Facsimile of 1936 UK First Edition), HarperCollins, March 5, 2007, Hardback, ISBN 0-00-723445-7

The book was first serialised in the US in The Saturday Evening Post in six instalments from May 2 (Volume 208, Number 44) to June 6, 1936 (Volume 208, Number 49) with illustrations by Orison MacPherson.