| Notes | "Yellow Iris" is a short story by Agatha Christie, first published in 1937. It was later published in the collection <a href="/c/books/book/415425/the-regatta-mystery-and-other-stories/">The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories</a> (1939), and also in <a href="/c/books/book/415428/problem-at-pollensa-bay-and-other-stories/">Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories</a> (1991).
The BBC commissioned an hour long adaptation for The National Programme. The Yellow Iris was broadcast in the same year but met with mixed reviews as the action/dialogue was interspersed with the performances of the cabaret artistes who were supposedly on the bill at the restaurant. The story features the character <a href="/c/books/credit/33043/Hercule-Poirot/">Hercule Poirot</a>.
Agatha Christie later used the central idea and setting of Yellow Iris in her 1945 full-length novel <a href="/c/books/book/414651/sparkling-cyanide/">Sparkling Cyanide</a>. |
