Apostle Paul to describe how we currently view the world. In "Problem at Sea", a rich woman is found dead in her cabin on a luxury ship off the shore of Alexandria. The story concludes with Poirot saying: "I do not approve of murder." Literary reception In The New York Times Book Review for 25 June 1939, Isaac Anderson mentioned by name "Miss Marple Tells a Story" and went on to say that, "Neither this story nor any of the others is comparable to the longer works of Agatha Christie, but that is scarcely to be expected, for the detective story, more perhaps than any other type of fiction, needs continued suspense to hold the reader's interest, and very few authors have been able to manage that within the limits of the short story." An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star (30 June 1939) wrote, regarding the title story "The Regatta Mystery", that "Agatha Christie succeeds in baffling her readers ... [B]ut far from plausible is her solution", and went on generally to say, "The author is handicapped by attempting to compress her plots into 27-odd pages each. Nor has she opportunity for continued suspense." Publication history 1939, Dodd, Mead and Company, Hardback, 229 pp 1939, Lawrence E. Spivak (New York), Abridged edition, 126 pp 1946, Avon Books, Paperback, (Avon number 85) 1964, Dell Books, Paperback, (Dell number 7336), 192 pp First publication of stories in the US "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest": January 1932 (Volume LIIX, Number 1) issue of the Ladies Home Journal with an illustration by Robert E. Lee. "In a Glass Darkly": 28 July 1934 (Volume 94, Number 4) issue of Collier's Weekly with an illustration by Harry Morse Meyers. "How Does Your Garden Grow?": June 1935 (Volume LII, Number 6) issue of the Ladies Home Journal with illustrations by Mead Schaeffer. "Problem at Sea": 12 January 1936 issue of the weekly newspaper supplement This Week magazine with an illustration by Stanley Parkhouse. "Problem at Pollensa Bay": 5 September 1936 (Volume 13, Number 36) issue of Liberty magazine under the title Siren Business with an illustration by James Montgomery Flagg. "Yellow Iris": 10 October 1937 edition of the Hartford courant newspaper under the title "Case of the Yellow Iris" with an uncredited illustration. "The Dream": 23 October 1937 (Volume 210, Number 17) issue of The Saturday Evening Post with illustrations by F. R. Gruger.