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The Gioconda Smile

Aldous Huxley

First published August 1921
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Hutton is tired of his wife, keeps a mistress, and invites another woman he's flirting with to a family dinner. When his wife does suddenly, he married his mistress and goes to Italy with her, but is extradited and tried for murder.

Non-speculative murder story.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1921 Cover Mortal Coils George H. Doran Collection |1
1929 Cover The Omnibus of Crime Harcourt, Brace & Company Anthology 525
August 1929 Cover The Omnibus of Crime Payson & Clarke Anthology 525
1937 The Omnibus of Crime Garden City Publishing Co. Anthology 525
1946 Cover Shocking Tales Current Books / A. A. Wyn Anthology 197
August 1952 50 Great Short Stories Bantam Books Anthology |9
August 1978 Cover 50 Great Short Stories Bantam Books Anthology 224
February 1992 Cover Collected Short Stories Elephant Paperbacks / Ivan R. Dee Collection 91