The Chocolate Box

Short story

 

Original publication:

The short story is first published in The Sketch Magazine (UK) on May 23 in 1923 (No. 1582) as part twelve in the series The Grey Cells of M. Poirot under the title The Clue of the Chocolate Box.

In the US the short story is first published in The Blue Book Magazine in February 1925 (Vol. 40, No. 4) with an unsigned illustration.

 

Alternative title:

The short story has also been published under the title The Time Hercule Poirot Failed in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (US) in 1962 (Vol. 40, No. 5).

 

In book form, the short story is represented in:

1. Poirot Investigates 1925 (American Edition)

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. Chokladasken 1985 (In the short story collection Åklagarens vittne och andra noveller)

2. Chokladasken 1990 (In the short story collection Poirots problem)

    Comment: The short story is also published as an audio book: Chokladasken 2019.