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The Room on the Fourth Floor

Ralph Straus

First published July 1937
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Miss Farringham checks into at a Paris hotel with her mother. A few hours later, her mother is missing and everyone, from the hotel manager to the cab driver who brought them there, is telling her that she arrived unaccompanied.

Contains no speculative elements.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1937 Cover Fifty Masterpieces of Mystery Odhams Press Anthology 302
1945 Cover Suspense Stories Collected by Alfred Hitchcock Dell Anthology
1947 Cover Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense Simon & Schuster Anthology