As long as it's light

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As long as there is light (AKA While the Light Lasts and Other Stories ) is a collection of short stories by Agatha Christie . It was first published on August 4, 1997 in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins .

The German first edition was published in 1999 by Scherz Verlag (Bern / Munich / Vienna) in the translation by Ursula-Maria Mössner, which is still used today, with comments by Tony Medawar.

It contains nine short stories, two of which with her famous detective Hercule Poirot (Christmas Excitement and The Riddle of the Chest from Baghdad).

The stories

The house from dreams
The actress
Tightrope walk
Excitement at Christmas
The lonely god
Treasure hunt
A wall as white as milk
The riddle of the chest from Baghdad
As long as it's light

Major expenses

  • 1997 Harper Collins. London
  • 1999 German first edition by Scherz Verlag

This collection has not been published in the USA.

First publications of the stories

The stories were published in magazines as follows:

  • The House of Dreams : Issue 74 of Sovereign Magazine, January 1926
  • The Actress : Issue 218 of The Novel Magazine , May 1923, entitled A Trap for the Unwary
  • The Edge : Pearson's Magazine Issue 374 , February 1927.
  • Christmas Adventure : 1611 in The Sketch Magazine, December 11, 1923. The author later expanded the story into a short novel - A Diplomatic Incident .
  • The Lonely God : Royal Magazine issue 333 , July 1926. Christie's original title for this story was The Little Lonely God .
  • Within a Wall : Royal Magazine issue 324 , October 1925.
  • The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest : Strand Magazine issue 493 , January 1932. The author later expanded the story into a short novel - The Spanish Chest.
  • "While the Light Lasts": Issue 229 of The Novel Magazine , April 1924

Manx Gold (treasure hunt) was one of the most unusual projects in the author's career. She was asked by Isle of Man politicians to stage a treasure hunt to stimulate tourism on the island. So she wrote a short story that appeared in five installments in the Daily Dispatch in May 1930. The short story contained traces of four tobacco tins, each with a £ 100 voucher - a substantial sum in the 1930s. The island's residents were excluded from the search. To further promote the treasure hunt, a booklet entitled June was printed in Douglas and displayed in hotels, guesthouses and tourist destinations. Although around 250,000 copies of this booklet were printed, only one remains today

The author later used the motif in her novel with Hercule Poirot Reunion with Mrs. Oliver and in a short story with Miss Marple A Strange Joke .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German first edition in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Agatha Christie


Novels with
Hercule Poirot

The Missing Link in the Chain  (1920) • Murder on the Golf Course  (1923) • Alibi  (1926) • The Big Four  (1927) • The Blue Express  (1928) • The House on the Dune  (1932) • Thirteen at Table  ( 1933) • Murder on the Orient Express  (1934) • Nicotine  (1935) • Death in the clouds  (1935) • The murders of Mr ABC  (1936) • Murder in Mesopotamia  (1936) • With open cards  (1936) • Death on the Nile  (1937) • The dog playing the ball  (1937) • Death awaits  (1938) • Hercule Poirot's Christmas  (1938) • Morphine  (1940) • The secret of the buckled shoes  (1940) • Evil under the sun  (1941) • The Unfinished Portrait  (1942) • The Owl House  (1946) • The Death Whirlwind  (1948) • Four Women and a Murder  (1951) • The Wax Bouquet  (1953) • The Kleptomaniac  (1955) • Reunion with Mrs. Oliver  (1956) • The Cat in the Dovecote  (1959) • On a Double Track  (1963) • The Forgetful Murderess  (1966) • The Snow White Party  (1969) • Elephants Don't Forget  (1972) • Curtain  (1975)

Novels with
the Beresfords

A Dangerous Adversary  (1922) • Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf  (1941) • Lots of charming old ladies  (1968) • Age does not protect against ingenuity  (1973)

Novels with
Miss Marple

Murder in the Rectory  (1930) • The Dead in the Library  (1942) • The Shadow Hand  (1943) • A Murder Is Announced  (1950) • Fata Morgana  (1952) • The Secret of the Gold Mine  (1953) • 4:50 p.m. from Paddington  ( 1957) • Murder in the Mirror  (1962) • Caribbean Affair  (1964) • Bertrams Hotel  (1965) • Fate in Person  (1971) • Rough Rest  (1976)

Novels with
fellow investigators

The Man in the Brown Suit  (1924) • The Count's Memoirs  (1925) • The Last Joker  (1929) • The Secret of Sittaford  (1931) • A Step into the Void  (1934) • The Dying in Wychwood  (1939) • And then There was no more  (1939) • Shortly before midnight  (1944) • Avenging ghosts  (1944) • Hydrocyanic acid  (1945) • The crooked house  (1949) • They came to Baghdad  (1951) • The uncanny way  (1954) • Fatal error  ( 1958) • The pale horse  (1961) • Murder made to measure  (1967) • Passenger to Frankfurt  (1970)

Anthologies

Poirot accounts  (1924) • Pandora's Box  (1929) • The Strange Mister Quin  (1930) • The Tuesday Night Club  (1932) • The Dog of Death  (1933) • Something's Lazy  (1934) • Parker Pyne Investigates  ( 1934) • Hercule Poirot Never Sleeps  (1937) • The Labor of Hercules  (1947) • A Diplomatic Incident  (1960) • Poirot's First Cases  (1974) • Miss Marple's Last Cases  (1979) • The Murderous Tea Round  (1991) • As long as it bright is  (1997)