SOS

SOS, sometimes spelled S.0.S. is a short story, written by Agatha Christie which was first published in issue 252 of The Grand Magazine in February 1926. It was subsequently compiled and published the collection The Hound of Death and Other Stories in the U.K. in 1933. In the U.S. the story first appeared in the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories in 1948.

Plot summary
SOS is a tale of the right person in the right place at the right moment to avert a crime of cold planning.

Plot
One rainy night on the Wiltshire downs, the Dinsmead's evening meal is interrupted by a stranger. Mortimer Cleveland interrupts their life when his car breaks down and he seeks shelter. Cleveland is a psychic researcher, who immediately senses that something is wrong; he detects murder in the air. Can he save the victim before it is too late?

Characters

 * Mr Dinsmead
 * Mrs Dinsmead
 * Charlotte Dinsmead
 * Johnnie Dinsmead
 * Magdalen Dinsmead
 * Mortimer Cleveland

Locations

 * Wiltshire Downs

Tropes and Themes

 * The Supernatural

Publication history

 * 1926: The Grand Magazine, vol. 48, no. 252, Feb 1926.
 * 1929: Hutchinson's Adventure & Mystery Story Magazine, vol. 4 no. 20, May 1929.
 * 1930: Best English Detective Stories of 1929,Horace Liveright, 1930
 * 1933: The Hound of Death and Other Stories, Odhams Press, October 1933, Hardcover, 252 pp
 * 1936: The Grand Magazine, vol. 70, no. 379, Sep 1936.
 * 1939: Christmas Pie, Dec 1939.
 * 1947: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, vol. 10, no. 49, Dec 1947.
 * 1948: The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1948, Hardcover, 272 pp
 * 1984: The Best Crime Stories,Hamlyn, 1984.
 * 1990: The Best Crime Stories, Mallard Press, 1990.