The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
Short story
Original publication:
The short story is first published in The Sketch
Magazine (UK) on November 14 in 1923 (No. 1607) as part eight of the second
series of
The Grey Cells of
M. Poirot.
In the US the short story is first published in
The Blue Book Magazine in September 1925
(Vol. 41, No. 5) under the title
The Clapham Cook.
Alternative title:
The short story has also been published under the title Find the Cook
in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
(US) in
1956 (Vol. 27, No. 2).
In book form, the short story is represented in:
1. The Under Dog and Other Stories
1951 (American short story collection)
2. Poirot's
Early Cases 1974 (British Edition)
Published in the US later the same year under the title
Hercule Poirot's
Early Cases.
3. Hercule
Poirot's Casebook 1984 (American short story collection)
Publications in Swedish:
1. Det mystiska fallet Eliza 1945
(Äventyrstidningen Levande Livet No. 18)
2a.
Den försvunna kokerskan 1948 (Tidskriften Obs! No.
14)
2b.
Den försvunna kokerskan 1948 (Tidskriften Obs! 1948 – Inbunden)
3. The Adventure of the Clapham Cook 1952 (In
the anthology Tales of Crime and Detection)
4. Den försvunna kokerskan 1960
(In the anthology Detektivhistorier från hela världen - Softcover Edition)
The anthology is also published in
Hardcover with dust jacket.
5. Kokerskans äventyr 1985 (In the short story
collection Åklagarens vittne
och andra noveller)
6. Kokerskans äventyr 1990 (In the short story
collection Poirots problem)
Comment: The short story is also published
as an audio book:
Kokerskans äventyr
2018.