Avon Modern Short Story Monthly

Avon Short Story Monthly was a series of short story collections by the Avon Book Company, New York in the 1940s. Each issue was typically an anthology of short stories by the same author and over the years, the publication featured such well-known authors as Somerset Maugham, John Steinbeck and Pearl S. Buck. There were occasional collections of stories by different authors. One such was issue no. 31 of 1946 which featured Agatha Christie's Philomel Cottage.