The Man from the Asylum

Short story

Original publication:

The short story is first published in The Sketch Magazine (UK) on January 2 in 1924 (No. 1614) as part one in the series The Man Who Was Number Four:
Further Adventures of M. Poirot under the title - and together with - The Unexpected Guest.

In the US the short story is forst published in The Blue Book Magazine in March 1927 (Vol. 44, No. 5) under the title - and together with - The Unexpected Guest with an illustration by L. R. Gustavson.

In book form, the short story is represented in:

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

2. The Big Four 2016 (Detective Club Crime Classics 1)

Publications in Swedish:

De fyra 1929 (Bonniers billighetsserie (Pictorial cover in colour)
The book also exists in two variant covers: Pictorial cover in black and white and Text cover.
NOTE! All later editions of the book is published under the title De fyra stora.