"A British butler and a French chef outwit an obnoxious nouveau riche millionaire." (RoaldDahlFans.com)
First published as "The Butler Did It" in Travel and Leisure, May 1974.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1979 |
|
Tales of the Unexpected | Vintage Books | Collection | 467 |
| 1980 |
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More Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books | Collection | 124 |
| September 1986 |
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Completely Unexpected Tales | Penguin Books | Omnibus | |
| November 1989 |
|
Someone Like You: and Other Short Stories | Le Livre de Poche | Collection | 35 |
| August 1990 |
|
Tales of the Unexpected | Vintage Books | Collection | |
| September 1991 | The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl | Michael Joseph | Omnibus | 702 | |
| 1995 |
|
Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 83 |
| May 1998 |
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The Umbrella Man and Other Stories | Viking | Collection | 49 |
| March 2000 |
|
Ten Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 22 |
| July 2000 |
|
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 49 |
| September 2001 |
|
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) | Collection | 48 |
| October 2006 |
|
Collected Stories | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 745 |
| November 2008 |
|
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories | Paw Prints | Collection | |49 |
| June 2013 |
|
The Umbrella Man and Other Stories | Speak / Penguin Books (US) | Collection | |3 |
| September 2013 |
|
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories | Puffin | Collection |