- UK
- Collins, London, Nov. 1940
- US
- Dodd Mead, New York, Feb. 1941 as "The Patriotic Murders"
- Collier's Weekly, Aug.3-Sep.28 1940 as 'The Patriotic Murders'
- a.k.a. "An Overdose of Death"
- Collier's Weekly, Aug.3-Sep.28 1940 as 'The Patriotic Murders'
Plot
The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide, But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments?
A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now - in the words of the rhyme - can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?
Characters
Hercule Poirot, Colonel Abercrombie, Mr. Amberiotis, Reginald Barnes, Alfred Biggs, Alistair Blunt, Frank Carter, Agnes Fletcher, Gerda Grant, Ram Lal, Mrs. Merton, Georgina Morley, Henry Morley, Gladys Nevill, Jane Olivera, Julia Olivera, Mr. Reilly, Mabelle Sainsbury Seale
Films & TV
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, ITV/UK, 1992
- Agahta Christie's POIROT IV
UK/US covers
Collins / HarperCollins
- ♦Vanessa
- Collins, 1958
- Fontana, 1959
- White Circle, 1950
- Fontana, 1970
ca: Tom Adams
- Fontana, 1980
ca: Tom Adams
- Fontana
- Fontana, 1984
♦Sheldon Goldberg
- Fontana, 1990
- HarperCollins, 1996/PB, 1999/HB
- HarperCollins, 2002
- HarperCollins, 2008
Masterpiece edition
- HarperCollins, 2008
Facsimile Edition
- HarperCollins, 2011
- Center Point Large Print, 2012
- HarperCollins, 2016
- HarperCollins, 2016
Dodd,Mead
- Dodd Mead, 1941
♦Steve Marcum
Dell
- DELL(683), 1953
ca: Carl Bobertz
- DELL(D370), 1960
- DELL, 1964
- DELL, 1967
- DELL, 1973 ca: William Teason
- DELL, 1976
♦Sheldon Goldberg
- DELL, 1978
♦Sheldon Goldberg
- DELL, 1980
♦Sheldon Goldberg
- DELL
Pan
- Pan(386), 1957
ca: D.A.Stowe
- Pan, 1976
♦Sheldon Goldberg
Berkley
- Berkley
- Berkley
- Berkley, 1994
- Berkley, 1998
others
- Pocket(249), 1943
ca: H. Lawrence Hoffman
- G.K.Hall, 1989
- Albatross, 1950
- Planet Three Publishing, 2002
- Ulverscroft Large Print, 1973
Magazine
- Collier's, Aug. 3, 1940
- Collier's, Aug. 10, 1940
- Collier's, Aug. 17, 1940
- Collier's, Aug. 24, 1940
- Collier's, Aug. 31, 1940
- Collier's, Sep. 7, 1940
- Collier's, Sep. 14, 1940
- Collier's, Sep. 21, 1940
- Collier's, Sep. 28, 1940
- Collier's, Sep. 28, 1940
Audio
Western Europe covers
Un, deux, trois
- Le Masque
- Le Masque, 1985
- Le Masque, 1994
- Le Masque, 1948
- Le Masque, 1962
- Masque Christie, 2006
- *Club des masques, 1973
ca: Tom Adams
- *Club des masques, 1982
- Club des masques
- Livre de Poche, 2002
- Livre de Poche
- Livre de Poche, 1971
- Livre de Poche
- Hachette, Collection Agatha Christie (16), 2005
Moord in de martelstoel
- Sijthoff, 1950
- Sijthoff, 1961
- Sijthoff, 1972
- Sijthoff, 1967
- Sijthoff, 1974
♦Eric Gellaerts
- Sijthoff, 1974
- Sijthoff, 1983
- Sijthoff, 1985
- Luitingh-Sijthoff/Poema, 1993
- HLN, 2015
- Overamstel Uitgevers, 2015
Das Geheimnis der Schnallenschuhe
- Scherz
- Scherz, 1951
- Scherz, 1963
- Scherz
- Scherz, 1995
- Scherz, 1977
♦Hartmut Stollberg
- *Scherz, 1992
- Scherz, 1997
- Scherz
- Scherz
- Scherz, 1992
- Loewe, 1996
- Weltbild, 2006
- I+H International, 1974
- Bertelsmann
- Fischer, 2006
- Hachette, 2009
Audio
Northern Europe covers
Skospännet
- Bonniers, 1941
- Zebra(129), 1961
- Delfinserien, 1973 ca: Per Åhlin
- Bonniers, 1988
- Bonniers, 1997
- 1999
Fine sko med spænder
- Forum Krimi, 1982
- Bahnhof, 2014
- Rosenkilde & Bahnhof, 2014 (ebook)
Siste time hos tannlegen
- Aschehoug, 1986
- Aschehoug, 1976
- Aschehoug, 1986
- Aschehoug, 2010
Mabellen kahdet kasvot
- WSOY/SAPO(59), 1962
- WSOY/SAPO(59), 1972
- WSOY, 1983
- WSOY, 1994
Tönn fyrir tönn
- *
Ũks, Kaks, Kingapannal Kinni Naks
- Varrak, 2004
Viens, du, užsek man batus / Puaro eina pas dantistą
- Sirokas, 2000
- Poli, 1996
Southern Europe covers
Poirot non sbaglia
- Il Giallo Mondadori (117), 1951
- I Capolavori dei Gialli Mondadori (284), 1965
- I Classici del Giallo (506), 1986 ca: Carlo Jacono
- Mondadori, 1979
- Mondadori
- Mondadori, 2002
- I Classici del Giallo (971), 2006
- Mondadori, 2010
- Hachette Fascicoli, 2005
- Il Sabato, 1993
- Corriere, 2014
La muerte visita al dentista
- Biblioteca Oro, 1952
- Biblioteca Oro, 1959
- *Biblioteca Oro, 1980
- *
- Planeta
- La Nacion
- Molino, 2004
- Booket, 2005
- Booket, 2009
- Círculo de Lectores, 2004
- RBA, 2010
- CreateSpace, 2016
Un, dos, corda'm la sabata
- La Llar del Llibre, 1986
- *COLUMNA EDICIONS
Uma Dose Mortal / Os Crimes Patrióticos / O Enigma do Sapato
Uma Dose Mortal
- Nova Fronteira, 1977
- Nova Fronteira, 2005
- Record
- Nova Fronteira, 1972
- *Record, 1987
- L&PM, 2011
Os Crimes Patrióticos
- *Colecção Vampiro(373)
O Enigma do Sapato
- ASA(#40), 2007
- ASA, 2016
- RBA, 2008
Μία σφαίρα στο κρανίο (Οι πατριωτικοί φόνοι)
- *ΛΥΧΝΑΡΙ
- *ΛΥΧΝΑΡΙ(A004), 2002
- *ΛΥΧΝΑΡΙ
- *ΛΥΧΝΑΡΙ
- ΛΥΧΝΑΡΙ
1, 2, ципела се распала / Jedan, dva, cipela se raspala
- *Narodna knjiga - Alfa (Beograd), 2001
- *Narodna knjiga & Politika (Beograd), 2005 ♦Svetlana Andjelic
- Nova knjiga, 2015
Patriotsko Ubojstvo
- V.D.T. (Zagreb), 2004 ♦Svetlana Andjelic
Skrivnost okrasne zaponke
- Mladinska knjiga Založba, 2015
Patriotsko ubojstvo
Eastern Europe covers
Nástrahy zubařského křesla
- Knižní klub, 2002
- Knižní klub, 2010
A fogorvos széke
- Hunga Könyvek, 1993
♦Czibóka Tamas
- Európa Könyvkiadó, 2009
- Európa Könyvkiadó, 2011
Смъртта на господин Морли / Смъртта на мистър Морли
- *Селекта, 1994
- Ера(48), 2013
Pierwsze, drugie... zapnij mi obuwie / Raz, dwa... zapnij mi obuwie
- Dolnośląskie, 1998
- Dolnośląskie, 2004
- Dolnośląskie, 2007
- Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 2008
- Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 2012
- Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 2015
- Phantom Press, 1992
- Hachette
Unu, doi, trei, ... / O supradoza de moarte
- Rao, 2010
- Litera, 2014
Раз, два - пряжку застібни
Раз, два, три, туфлю застегни / Раз, два - пряжку застегни
- Айрис-Пресс, 2007
- Айрис-Пресс, 2008
- Эксмо, 2010
- Эксмо, 2010
- Эксмо, 2013
- Эксмо, 2014
Middle East & Asian covers
İskemlede Beş Ceset / Hercule Poirot Zaferi (Cinayet Salgını)
- Ak, 1964
- Altın, 1975
- Altın, 1990
- Altın, 2000
- Altın, 2006
רצח במרפאה
- 1962
- מ. מזרחי
إبزيم الحذاء
- إبزيم الحذاء
الأجيال للترجمة والنشر
2005
- JARIR Reader, 2014
راز پرونده مختومه ⁄ جنایتهای میهنپرستانه ⁄ جنایتهای میهن پرستانه
A.P. = anno Persico (Persian year); Persian index
- روايت, A.P.1372
- ثالث, A.P.1392
- جنایتهای میهن پرستانه
Hermes books, A.P.1391
(Marathi) वन टू बकल माय शू
- (Marathi) Padmagandha Prakashan, 2014
අවසන් රැඟුම
- අවසන් රැඟුම
Satu, Dua, Pasang Gesper Sepatunya / Pembunuhan Ganjil
- *Gramedia, 1992
- *Gramedia
- Gramedia, 2012
- Pembunuhan Ganjil, Mekar Jaya, 1980
หนึ่ง-สอง เข็มขัดรองเท้าเจ้าปัญหา ⁄ ศพปริศนา ⁄ หนึ่ง สอง เข็มขัด รองเท้า เจ้าปัญหา ⁄ หนึ่ง สอง เข็มขัดรองเท้าเจ้าปัญหา ⁄ คลินิกมรณะ
- ศพปริศนา, *---, 2526 ca: Tom Adams ♦Rattanachai Lueangwongngam
- ศพปริศนา, สร้างสรรค์บุ๊คส์, 2557 ca: Tom Adams ♦Ratakorn
- ศพปริศนา, *(ePUB), 2013
- ศพปริศนา, น้องใหม่, 2533(1990) ♦Rattanachai Lueangwongngam
- หนึ่ง สอง เข็มขัดรองเท้าเจ้าปัญหา, ---,
Một, hai, ba,... những cái chết bí ẩn
鞋扣之謎 / 牙医谋杀案 / 一，二，縫好鞋釦
鞋扣之謎
- 成文出版社, 1977
牙医谋杀案
- 贵州人民出版社, 1998
- 人民文学出版社, 2008
- 人民文学出版社, 2009
- 圣才教育, 2014
- 新星出版社, 2017
一，二，縫好鞋釦
- 遠流 2001
愛国殺人
- ハヤカワ・ポケットミステリ, 1955
- ハヤカワ・ポケットミステリ, 1956
- ハヤカワ・ポケットミステリ, 1975, 1975(2nd)
- クリスティー文庫, 2004
- Kindle edition
- ハヤカワ・ミステリ文庫, 1977, 1982(13th) ca: Hiroshi Manabe
애국 살인 / 하나, 둘, 내 구두에 버클을 달아라
- *자유문학사, 1993
- 해문출판사, 1991
- 해문출판사
- 애국살인, 해문출판사, 2004
- 황금가지, 2008