Title: The Big Four

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company

Year of publication: 1927        Publication month: September1

Printed by: Printed in U. S. A.

First edition in Sweden: De fyra 1929 (Bonniers billighetsserie)
NOTE! The first Swedish edition is also published in a variant cover without serial belonging and in a white cover.
              All later editions is published under the title De fyra stora.

Cover: Unknown.

Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket.
NOTE! Originally with a girdle (wrap-around band).

Price: $ 2.00

Number of pages: 276 pages.

Main Character/Detective: Hercule Poirot (together with Captain Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector James Japp)

First appearances: The (detective) novel is originally published in a series of short stories – which Christie later re-worked into this (detective) novel – in the UK in
                                 The Sketch Magazine in 1924 under the sub-head: The Man Who Was Number Four: Further Adventures of Hercule Poirot part I-XII2.

First book edition: The (detective) novel is first published in book form in the UK in January 1927: British edition.

 

1 First reviewed in The New York Times Book Review on October 2nd, 1927.

2 There is no short story series published in the US prior to the book edition.
   However, a serialised version based on the British book edition is partially published before the American book edition in The Blue Book Magazine between March 1927 and January 1928: The Big Four.