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Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

Roald Dahl

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 Cover Kiss Kiss Michael Joseph Collection
1960 Kiss Kiss McClelland & Stewart Collection
February 1960 Cover Kiss Kiss Alfred A. Knopf Collection
1961 Cover Kiss Kiss Dell Collection
1962 Cover Kiss Kiss Penguin Books Collection 86
1965 Cover Kiss Kiss Dell Collection
1966 Kiss Kiss Penguin Books Collection 86
October 1968 Cover Kiss Kiss Alfred A. Knopf Collection 109
November 1969 Cover Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl Michael Joseph Omnibus
1970 Cover Kiss Kiss Penguin Books Collection 86
November 1972 Cover Kiss Kiss Pocket Books Collection 80
May 1978 Cover 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 Cover Tales of the Unexpected Vintage Books Collection 267
1980 Cover Tales of the Unexpected Penguin Books Collection 218
1984 Cover Kiss Kiss Penguin Books Collection 86
September 1986 Cover Completely Unexpected Tales Penguin Books Omnibus
August 1990 Cover The Best of Roald Dahl Vintage Books Collection
August 1990 Cover Tales of the Unexpected Vintage Books Collection
September 1991 The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl Michael Joseph Omnibus 70
September 2001 Cover The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) Collection 27
October 2006 Cover Collected Stories Alfred A. Knopf Collection 536
September 2008 Cover Tales of the Unexpected Penguin Books Australia Collection 218
September 2013 Cover The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories Puffin Collection