Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by The Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

I'm Kemper Donovan.

And this week we are,

oh, we are back to Poirot and his short stories.

This must make you so happy happy Catherine. It always does. You know how much I love

Papa Poiro, and in this case he's investing a case that I think might seem a little bit

familiar to us, don't you think, Cooper?

Mm, perhaps, perhaps this story we are covering, Yellow Iris, will make listeners think of

the last novel that we covered sparkling cyanide because this is the

original short story that Christie expanded into that very novel isn't it?

Yes it is. So why don't you tell us a little bit about this really odd of publication history of this?

Sure.

So it was apparently first published really weirdly in the Hartford Current in the U.S. in October of 1937 under the title

Case of the Yellow Iris and then subsequently published in the Regatta Mystery

Collection also in the US in 1939 and then it seems not to have been

published as a standalone short story in the UK and then really bizarrely it

wasn't published in book form in the UK until

Problem at Polensse Bay and other stories all the way in 1991 by Harper Collins

and that's actually the copy out of which I read Yellow Iris myself. I have a copy of

Problem at Palense Bay which is this odds and ends collection that they seem to have put together to publish stray titles that hadn't been

published in book form yet. That seems to be the theme of Problem at

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