A passenger on a cruise ship bets his savings on how many miles the ship will travel the next day. When it seems that the ship will pass that number, he decides to slow things down by jumping overboard.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1952 | The New Yorker, January 19, 1952 | MAGAZINE | |||
| 1953 |
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Someone Like You | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | |
| 1954 | Someone Like You | Secker & Warburg | Collection | ||
| 1959 |
|
Nachtelijke cavalcade | Querido | Anthology | 82 |
| 1961 |
|
Someone Like You | Michael Joseph | Collection | |
| August 1961 |
|
Someone Like You | Dell | Collection | 83 |
| 1962 | M'n liefje, m'n duifje | Meulenhoff | Collection | 66 | |
| 1963 |
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M'n liefje, m'n duifje | Meulenhoff | Collection | 66 |
| 1963 |
|
Nachtelijke cavalcade | Querido | Anthology | 84 |
| October 1963 |
|
Stories My Mother Never Told Me | Random House | Anthology | 74 |
| 1965 |
|
Someone Like You | Four Square Books | Collection | |
| 1965 |
|
Someone Like You | Dell | Collection | |
| June 1965 |
|
Histoires à faire peur | Robert Laffont | Anthology | 97 |
| November 1965 |
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More Stories My Mother Never Told Me | Dell | Anthology | 30 |
| 1966 |
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Stories My Mother Never Told Me, Part I | Pan Books | Anthology | |
| November 1969 |
|
Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl | Michael Joseph | Omnibus | |
| 1970 |
|
Someone Like You | Penguin Books | Collection | 73 |
| 1972 |
|
Best Horror Stories 3 | Faber and Faber | Anthology | 33 |
| 1972 |
|
Someone Like You | Pocket Books | Collection | |
| October 1972 |
|
Histoires à faire peur | Le Livre de Poche | Anthology | 99 |
| 1977 | Lammkeule und andere Geschichten | Volk und Welt | Collection | 68 | |
| May 1978 |
|
The Best of Roald Dahl | Vintage Books | Collection | 66 |
| 1979 |
|
The Bedside Book of Sea Stories | Arthur Barker | Anthology | |
| 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 | 67 |
| 1980 |
|
Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books | Collection | 58 |
| October 1980 |
|
Küßchen, Küßchen! | Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft | Collection | 434 |
| 1983 |
|
Lammkeule und andere Geschichten | Volk und Welt | Collection | 68 |
| 1985 |
|
Rakkaani, kyyhkyläiseni / Joku kaltaisesi | Suuri Suomalainen Kirjakerho | Omnibus | 140|25 |
| 1985 |
|
Rabenschwarze Geschichten | Klett | Anthology | 6|6.2 |
| September 1985 |
|
Histoires à faire peur | Le Livre de Poche | Anthology | 99 |
| September 1986 |
|
Completely Unexpected Tales | Penguin Books | Omnibus | |
| 1988 |
|
Beroemde gruwelverhalen | Elsevier | Anthology | |
| 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 | 494 | |
| May 1994 |
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Sea-Cursed: Thirty Terrifying Tales of the Deep | Barnes & Noble Books | Anthology | 505 |
| February 2000 |
|
Skin and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) | Collection | 129 |
| March 2000 |
|
Ten Short Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 10 |
| May 2000 |
|
Eaux mystérieuses et mers infernales | L'Atalante | Anthology | 281 |
| July 2000 |
|
Skin and Other Stories | Viking | Collection | 129 |
| September 2001 |
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Skin and Other Stories | Puffin | Collection | 129 |
| January 2002 | Skin and Other Stories | Puffin / Penguin Books (US) | Collection | 129 | |
| October 2006 |
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Collected Stories | Alfred A. Knopf | Collection | 284 |
| September 2008 |
|
Tales of the Unexpected | Penguin Books Australia | Collection | 58 |
| December 2009 |
|
Someone Like You | Penguin Books | Collection | |
| December 2009 |
|
Someone Like You | Penguin Books | Collection |