The Affair at the Victory Ball

Short story

 

Original publication:

The short story is first published in The Sketch Magazine (UK) on March 7 in 1923 (No. 1571) as part one of the series The Grey Cells of M. Poirot.

In the US the short story is first published in The Blue Book Magazine in September 1923 (Vol. 37, No. 5).

 

Alternative title:

The short story has also been published under the title The Six China Figures in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (US) in 1955 (Vol. 26, No. 4).

 

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. Mordet på maskeradbalen 1990 (In the short story collection Poirots problem)

2. The Affair at the Victory Ball 1995 (In the anthology Whodunnit? From Detective Novel to Crime Story)

    Comment: The short story is also published as an audio book: Mordet på maskeradbalen 2019.