The Dead Harlequin

Short story

 

Original publication:

The short story is first published in The Grand Magazine (UK) in March 1929 (Vol. 55, No. 289).

In the US the short story is first published in Detective Fiction Weekly on June 22 in 1929 (Vol. 42, No. 3).

 

Alternative title/Version:

The short story has also been published under the title The Man in the Empty Chair in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (US) in 1955 (Vol. 25, No. 1).

NOTE! The short story also exists in an unpublished playscript version under the title Someone at the Window (without Harley Quin and Mr Satterthwaite).

 

In book form, the short story is represented in:

The Mysterious Mr Quin 1930 (British Edition)
Published in the US later the same year: American Edition.

 

Publications in Swedish:

Den döde harlekinen 1984 (In the short story collection Den mystiske Mr. Quin - Albert Bonniers Förlag)
The short story collection is also published in a partial edition by Schildts Förlag.