The Chess Problem

Short story

 

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION:

The short story is originally published in The Sketch Magazine (UK) in 1924 on February 13: The Chess Problem1.

In the US, there is no publication of the short story version.
However, the (detective) novel version is first published in a serialised version in The Blue Book Magazine in September 1927: The Chess Problem.

 

Publications in book form:

1. The Big Four 1927 (British edition)
    Published in the US later the same year: American edition.

2. A Chess Problem 1942 (In the American anthology Sporting Blood. The Great Sports Detective Stories)
    NOTE! This version differ from both the previous short story version and the (detective) novel/serialisation version!

2. The Big Four 2016 (Detective Club Crime Classics 1)
    NOTE! The short story version!

 

Publications in Sweden:

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

2. Ett schackproblem 1954 (Lektyr No. 4)

 

1 The short story is later re-worked into chapter eleven in the (detective) novel The Big Four (1927) entitled A Chess Problem.