The Tape-Measure Murder
13 Clues for Miss Marple. A Selection of
Mystery Stories
ORIGINAL PUBLICATION:
The short story is first published in
This Week Magazine
(US)
on November
16 in 1941 under the title
Tape-Measure Murder.
In the UK, the short story is first published in
The Strand Magazine in March 1942 (Vol. 102,
No. 614) under the title
The Case of the Retired Jeweller.
Alternative title:
The short story has also been
published
in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
(US) in
1973 (Vol. 61, No. 1) under the title
Village Murder.
Publications in short story
collections:
1.
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
1950 (American short story collection)
2.
13 for Luck! A
Selection of Mystery Stories for Young Readers 1961 (American edition)
Published in the UK five years later under the title
13 for Luck! A
Selection of Mystery Stories.
3.
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
1979 (British short story collection)
Publications in Sweden:
1. Mord i byn 1974 (In the
anthology Ett
koppel blodhundar. En deckarantologi)
2. Måttbandsmysteriet 1977 (In the short story
collection Damen med slöjan)
3.
Brottsligt band 1979 (Husmodern No. 25)
4. Mord i St Mary Mead 1998 (Hemmets Veckotidning No.
29)
Comment: The short story is also
published under the original title in the short story collection
Miss
Marple. The Complete Short Stories (2016-2017) in various formats.