Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
| First published | 1960 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Short Story |
Mrs. Bixby, living in New York with her husband, goes out of town once a month to supposedly visit her aunt, but really to see a Colonel she's having an affair with. The Colonel breaks up with her and gives her a fancy mink coat as a parting present. Mrs. Bixby has to think of a way to explain the coat to her husband and comes up with an elaborate subterfuge involving a pawnshop. The plan goes wrong in a way that ends with her husband's secretary wearing the coat.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 |
|
Kiss Kiss | Michael Joseph | Collection | |
| 1960 | Kiss Kiss | McClelland & Stewart | Collection | ||
| February 1960 |
|
Kiss Kiss | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | |
| 1961 |
|
Kiss Kiss | Dell | Collection | |
| 1962 |
|
Kiss Kiss | Penguin Books | Collection | 86 |
| 1965 |
|
Kiss Kiss | Dell | Collection | |
| 1966 | Kiss Kiss | Penguin Books | Collection | 86 | |
| October 1968 |
|
Kiss Kiss | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 109 |
| November 1969 |
|
Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl | Michael Joseph | Omnibus | |
| 1970 |
|
Kiss Kiss | Penguin Books | Collection | 86 |
| November 1972 |
|
Kiss Kiss | Pocket Books | Collection | 80 |
| May 1978 |
|
The Best of Roald Dahl | Vintage Books | Collection | 197 |
| February 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Michael Joseph | Collection | ||
| February 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books | Collection | ||
| September 1979 |
|
Tales of the Unexpected | Vintage Books | Collection | 267 |
| 1980 |
|
Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books | Collection | 218 |
| 1984 |
|
Kiss Kiss | Penguin Books | Collection | 86 |
| September 1986 |
|
Completely Unexpected Tales | Penguin Books | Omnibus | |
| August 1990 |
|
The Best of Roald Dahl | Vintage Books | Collection | |
| August 1990 |
|
Tales of the Unexpected | Vintage Books | Collection | |
| September 1991 | The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl | Michael Joseph | Omnibus | 70 | |
| September 2001 |
|
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) | Collection | 27 |
| October 2006 |
|
Collected Stories | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 536 |
| September 2008 |
|
Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books Australia | Collection | 218 |
| September 2013 |
|
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories | Puffin | Collection |