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1 Later collected into books, sometimes with minor changes, many of these stories first appeared in magazines such as The Sketch (1923) and Blue Book (1923–25).

2 Also published under the title ‘Mr Davenby Disappears’.

3 Also published under the title ‘The Mystery of the Plymouth Express’.

4 A much expanded version of this story was published in 1937 under the title ‘The Incredible Theft’.

5 Also published under the title ‘The Mystery of the Clapham Cook’.

6 Also published under the title ‘The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls’.

7 Also published under the title ‘By Road or Rail’.

8 Also published under the title ‘The Adventure of the King of Clubs’.

9 Also published under the title ‘The Dubious Clue’.

10 Also published under the title ‘The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly’.

11 Also published under the title ‘The Million Dollar Bank Robbery’.

12 Also published under the title ‘The Case of the Veiled Lady’.

13 The history of this delectable story is complicated. The first version appeared in The Sketch, 12 December 1923, and made other appearances under the title ‘Christmas Adventure’. In 1960 a much expanded and updated version, set in the 1950s, appeared under two titles: ‘The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding’ and ‘The Theft of the Royal Ruby’.

14 Though first published as a book in 1927, The Big Four is a somewhat expanded collection of twelve stories which appeared serially in The Sketch in 1924.

15 In 1929, in Partners in Crime, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, actors in another corner of the Christie arena, parodied the exploits of Poirot and Hastings in The Big Four in their adventure ‘The Man Who was No. 16’.

16 Presumably in defending the existing social order against the Big Four. It was probably at this time, for his share in the victory, that Hastings received an OBE. We are never told what Poirot thought of that.

17 Also published under the title ‘In the Third Floor Flat’.

18 Also published under the title ‘The Worst of All’.