Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
Miss Marple's Final Cases | |
| Followed by | The Harlequin Tea Set |
|---|---|
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories is a short story collection by
Harley Quin and two gothic tales
.
List of stories
- Problem at Pollensa Bay
- The Second Gong
- Yellow Iris
- The Harlequin Tea Set
- The Regatta Mystery
- The Love Detectives
- Next to a Dog
- Magnolia Blossom
Publication history
- 1991, HarperCollins, November 1991, Hardcover, 232 pp ISBN 0-00-223922-1
- 1992, Fontana Books (Imprint of ISBN 0-00-647242-7
First publication of stories
The first UK magazine publication of all the stories has not been fully documented. The known listing is as follows:
- Magnolia Blossom: First published in issue 329 of the ISBN 0-00-231-3316) to tie in with a dramatisation of the story in the television series of the same name.
- The Love Detectives: First published in issue 236 of The Mysterious Mr. Quin in 1930. The plot has similarities to 1930 Miss Marple novel The Murder at the Vicarage
- Next To A Dog: First published in issue 295 of the Grand Magazinein September 1929.
- The Second Gong: First published in issue 499 of the Strand Magazine in July 1932. This story with Dead Man's Mirrorin 1935.
- Problem at Pollensa Bay: First published in issue 539 of the Parker Pyne.
- The Regatta Mystery: First published in issue 546 of the Strand Magazine in June 1936 under the title Poirot and the Regatta Mystery. The story was illustrated by Jack M. Faulks. The story was later rewritten by Christie to change the detective from Hercule Poirot to Parker Pyne before its first book publication in the US in ISBN 978-0006513773).
- Yellow Iris: First published in issue 559 of the Strand Magazine in July 1937. This story with Hercule Poirot was the basis of the novel Colonel Raceand the plot was heavily altered.
No magazine publication of The Harlequin Tea Set has yet been traced; the story was first published in book form in the UK in Winter's Crimes #3 in 1971 by
ISBN 0-333-12871-0
).