The Under Dog and Other Stories

List of stories

• The Under Dog
• The Plymouth Express
• The Affair at the Victory Ball
• The Market Basing Mystery
• The Lemesurier Inheritance
• The Cornish Mystery
• The King of Clubs
• The Submarine Plans
• The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

  Publication history

• 1929, The Reader's Library
• 1951, Dodd Mead and Company, Hardback, 248 pp
• 1955, Pocket Books, Paperback, 164 pp
• 1965, Dell Books, Paperback, 192 pp,

  First publication of stories

• The Under Dog was first published in the US in Volume 8, Number 6 of Mystery Magazine dated 1 April 1926. It was published in the UK in the October 1926 edition of The London Magazine and then in book form in 2 New Crime Stories, published by The Reader's Library in September 1929 and then in the Collins Crime Club collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding. All the remaining stories in the collection were first published in the US in the monthly Blue Book Magazine with uncredited illustrations as follows:
• The Affair at the Victory Ball: September 1923 – Volume 37, Number 5
• The King of Clubs: November 1923 – Volume 38, Number 1
• The Plymouth Express: January 1924 – Volume 38, Number 3. The plot was later reworked as the novel The Mystery of the Blue Train.
• The Market Basing Mystery: May 1925 – Volume 41, Number 1
• The Submarine Plans: July 1925 – Volume 41, Number 3
• The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: September 1925 – Volume 41, Number 5.
• The Cornish Mystery: October 1925 – Volume 41, Number 6
• The Lemesurier Inheritance: November 1925 – Volume 42, Number 1