The King of Clubs

Short story

Original publication:

The short story is first published in The Sketch Magazine on March 21 in 1923 (No. 1573) as part three of the series The Grey Cells of M. Poirot under the title The Adventure of the King of Clubs.

In the US the short story is first published in The Blue Book Magazine in November 1923 (Vol. 38, No. 1.

Alternative title:

The short story has also been published under the title Beware of the King of Clubs in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (US) in 1955 (Vol. 25, No. 5).

1. The Under Dog and Other Stories 1951 (Amerikansk novellsamling)

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)

1. Klöver kung 1990 (In the short story collection Poirots problem)