World's End: First published under the slightly abbreviated title of World's End in issue 238 of The Story-Teller magazine in February 1927 The Voice in the Dark: First published in issue 239 of The Story-Teller magazine in March 1927. The Face of Helen: First published in issue 240 of The Story-Teller magazine in April 1927. Harlequin's Lane: First published in issue 241 of The Story-Teller magazine in May 1927. The Dead Harlequin: First published in issue 289 of the Grand Magazine in March 1929. The Man From the Sea: First published in volume 1, number 6 of Britannia and Eve magazine in October 1929. The story was illustrated by Steven Spurrier. The five stories in The Story-teller magazine above were part of a six-story sequence titled The Magic of Mr Quin. The sixth story in the sequence (and the first to be published) was At the Crossroads in issue 236 in December 1926. The story was published in the US in Flynn's Weekly in October 1926 (Volume XIX, Number 3). Retitled The Love Detectives, the story appeared in book form in the US in 1950 in Three Blind Mice and Other Stories and in the UK in Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories in 1991. A partial listing of the first US magazine publications is as follows: The Coming of Mr Quin: March 1925 (Volume LXXXIV, Number 2) issue of Munsey's Magazine under the title Mr Quinn Passes By; the story was not illustrated. At the Bells and Motley: 17 July 1926 (Volume XVI, Number 6) issue of Flynn's Weekly with an uncredited illustration. The Soul of the Croupier: 13 November 1926 (Volume XIX, Number 5) issue of Flynn's Weekly with an uncredited illustration. The World's End: 20 November 1926 (Volume XIX, Number 6) issue of Flynn's Weekly with an uncredited illustration. The Voice in the Dark: 4 December 1926 (Volume XX, Number 1) issue of Flynn's Weekly with an uncredited illustration. The Face of Helen: 6 August 1927 issue of Detective Story Magazine. Harlequin's Lane: 27 August 1927 (Volume XXVI, Number 4) issue of Flynn’s Weekly. The Dead Harlequin: 22 June 1929 (Volume 42, Number 3) issue of Detective Fiction Weekly with an uncredited illustration. Book dedication Christie's dedication in the book reads: "To Harlequin the invisible". This dedication is unusual for two reasons; first, few of her short story collections carried a dedication and, second, it is