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Footprints in the Jungle

W. Somerset Maugham

First published 1928
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

"A story of social scandal involving adultery, the discovery of an illegitimate pregnancy, and the subsequent murder of an inconvenient husband by cheating couple. The most striking element of the story is that the passage of each year without their crime being detected reduces their feelings of remorse and increases their enjoyment of a comfortable life together." (Timothy Sexton)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1928 Cover The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder & Mystery Charles Scribner's Sons Anthology
1928 Cover The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder & Mystery Hutchinson Anthology 259
1929 The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder & Mystery Hutchinson Anthology
July 1937 Cover Fifty Enthralling Stories of the Mysterious East Odhams Press Anthology 43