The original version of "The Regatta Mystery" featured Hercule Poirot. The story was later rewritten by Christie to change the detective from Poirot to Parker Pyne for book publication and all collections in both the US and UK contain the Pyne version of the story. The original Poirot version appeared in the 3 May 1936 edition of the Hartford Courant newspaper with an uncredited illustration. It surfaced again in 2008 as part of the three-volume Harper collection, Agatha Christie: The Complete Short Stories – Masterpieces in Miniature. (The story appears as the postscript to the Poirot volume.) "Miss Marple Tells a Story" was specially commissioned by the BBC as a radio play and read by Christie herself on 11 May 1934 on BBC's National Programme. No print publications of the story prior to 1939 are known. For first publications in the UK, see the applicable UK collections below. UK book appearances of stories The stories contained in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories appear in the following UK collections: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960): "The Dream", and an expanded version of "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest" retitled "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest". Poirot's Early Cases (1974): "How Does Your Garden Grow?" and "Problem at Sea". Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (1979): "Miss Marple Tells a Story" and "In a Glass Darkly". Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991): "The Regatta Mystery", "Problem at Pollensa Bay", and "Yellow Iris". "The Regatta Mystery" and "Problem at Pollensa Bay" had originally appeared in the now out of print collection 13 For Luck! in 1966. While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997): "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest". This story was later expanded by Christie, with Arthur Hastings removed from it, as "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest" published in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding References External links The Regatta Mystery at the official Agatha Christie website Short story collections by Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot short story collections Miss Marple short story collections 1939 short story collections Dodd, Mead & Co. books