adaptation A third television adaption of the novel was made as an episode for the French series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie ("The Little Murders of Agatha Christie") on 14 September 2012, under the title "Le couteau sur la nuque" ("The Knife on the Neck"). The adaptation changed the setting to a theatre in the city of Amiens, France, in the 1950s, made changes in a number of characters – Christie's detectives were replaced by Commissaire Larosière (Antoine Duléry) and his clumsy assistant, Inspecteur Lampion (Marius Colluci), while the killer is glamorous actress Sarah Morlant (Maruschka Detmers), and the victim is Morlant's inconvenient husband is fellow actor Pierre Fougère (Jean-Marie Winling) – and featured an additional murder subplot involving the theatre's concierge. Publication history 1933, The American Magazine, serialised in six issues (March–August 1933) as 13 For Dinner Illustrations by Weldon Trench 1933, Collins Crime Club (London), September 1933, Hardcover, 256 pp The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). 1933, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1933, Hardcover, 305 pp The US edition retailed at $2.00. 1944, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 60 [mapback]), 224 pp 1948, Penguin Books, Paperback, (Penguin number 685), 251 pp 1954, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 192 pp 1969, Greenway edition of collected works (William Collins), Hardcover 1970, Greenway edition of collected works (Dodd Mead), Hardcover, 255 pp 1970, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 380 pp; 2007, Poirot Facsimile Edition (Facsimile of 1933 UK first edition), 5 February 2007, Hardcover, 256 pp; Book dedication The dedication of the book reads: To Dr. and Mrs. Campbell Thompson Reginald Campbell Thompson (21 August 1876 – 23 May 1941), married to Barbara, was an eminent British archaeologist and the second expedition leader to employ Christie's husband Max Mallowan to work on one of his digs. The offer of work came in 1930 when Mallowan's employer, Leonard Woolley, was proving difficult over his proposed marriage to Agatha and their wish that she should join her husband on the dig at Ur although the real opposition came from Leonard Woolley's difficult wife, Katharine (see the dedication to The Thirteen Problems). Thompson's dig was at Nineveh and Max joined the team there in September 1931 followed the next month by Agatha. The invitation was only confirmed after the Mallowans had joined Thompson for a weekend in the country near Oxford where they were subjected to a