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The Under Dog and Other Stories
Dust-jacket illustration of the first US edition
AuthorAgatha Christie
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHercule Poirot
GenreDetective fiction
short story
PublisherDodd Mead and Company
Publication date
1951
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages248
Preceded byTaken at the Flood 
Followed byMrs 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.[1] The first US edition retailed at $2.50.[2]

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.

  1. ^ Morris, David (11 July 2021). "INSIGHTS: Agatha Christie's The Under Dog". Collecting Christie. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ^ American Tribute to Agatha Christie

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