Title: Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Published in: Collier's Weekly

Year of publication: 1940        Publication date: November 9

Issue: Vol. 106, No. 19

Printed by: ?

Original book publication: Four and Twenty Blackbirds 1950 (In the American short story collection Three Blind Mice and Other Stories)
NOTE! In the UK, the short story is first published – under the same title – in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrées 1960.

Original publication in Sweden: Den ödesdigra måltiden 1961 (In the short story collection Äventyret med julpuddingen och andra detektivnoveller)

Illustrator: Mario Cooper

Price: ?

Number of instalments: One instalment.

Main Character/Detective: Hercule Poirot (together with Captain Arthur Hastings)