The Pall Mall Magazine was a monthly British literary magazine published between 1893 and 1914. Begun by William Waldorf Astor as an offshoot of The Pall Mall Gazette, the magazine included poetry, short stories, serialized fiction, and general commentaries, along with extensive artwork. It was notable in its time as the first British magazine to "publish illustrations in number and finish comparable to those of American periodicals of the same class" much of which was in the late Pre-Raphaelite style. It was often compared to the competing publication The Strand Magazine; many artists, such as illustrator Sidney Paget and author H. G. Wells, sold freelance work to both.
During its run, the magazine published many of the most significant artists of the day, including illustrators George Morrow and Edmund Joseph Sullivan, poets Algernon Charles Swinburne and Rudyard Kipling, and authors such as Julian Osgood Field, Bernard Capes, Charlotte O'Conor Eccles, Jack London, and Joseph Conrad, whose novel Typhoon was first serialized therein. Among the magazine's editors were Douglas Straight (1893–1896), Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1896–1900), George Halkett (1901–1905) and Charles Morley (1905–1914).
On October 6, 1912, The New York Times reported that Waldorf Astor had sold the magazine, "Said to Have Obtained Very Little for It." In 1914, as romantic ideas faded with the onset of the First World War, The Pall Mall Magazine merged with Nash's Magazine, controlled by the Hearst Corporation since 1910, to become Nash's Pall Mall Magazine. From May 1927, the two magazines were again published separately, but they were re-merged after the September 1929 issue, and finally ceased publication altogether following the issue of September 1937.
Publications of Agatha Christie stories[]
In chronological order of publication.
- Issue 462, November 1931 - Death by Drowning. Illustrated by J.A. May.
- Issue 481, June 1933 - Under the sub-heading of The Arabian Nights of Parker Pyne three short stories were published. Have You Got Everything You Want?, The Gate of Baghdad and The House at Shiraz. They were published under the titles On the Orient Express, At the Gate of Baghdad and In the House at Shiraz respectively. Illustrations by Marshall Frantz, from the Cosmopolitan publication of the stories, were used.
- Issue 482, July 1933 - Under the sub-heading of More Arabian Nights of Parker Pyne, three further short stories were published. The Pearl of Price (under the title The Pearl), Death on the Nile and The Oracle at Delphi. Illustrations by Marshall Frantz, from the Cosmopolitan publication of the stories, were used.