HarperCollins Publishers

HarperCollins Publishers appears in the book’s publisher information as an international publishing organization with offices listed in five countries. The front matter gives its regional corporate names, postal addresses, and websites, presenting a practical map of the company’s publishing presence rather than a history of its origins or operations.

International offices

The publisher information names HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd. in Australia, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. in both Canada and the United Kingdom, HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited in New Zealand, and HarperCollins Publishers Inc. in the United States. These distinct legal names sit beneath the shared HarperCollins Publishers identity, reflecting the regional entities through which the organization is represented in the listed markets.

The Australian office is given at 25 Ryde Road, with a post-office box in Pymble, New South Wales, and a country-specific website. In Canada, the listed office is at 55 Avenue Road, Suite 2900, Toronto, Ontario. The New Zealand entry gives a post-office box in Auckland and a separate national website. Together, these entries make the publisher’s regional presence concrete through both street and postal addresses, rather than naming countries alone.

United Kingdom and United States listings

The United Kingdom listing identifies HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. at 77–85 Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8JB, and supplies a UK web address. This entry places the organization’s publishing information in London while distinguishing the British contact details from those supplied for other regions.

The United States listing names HarperCollins Publishers Inc. at 10 East 53rd Street, New York, New York 10022. Read alongside the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand addresses, the New York entry completes a five-country directory of company contacts in the book’s front matter. The evidence establishes the listed locations and corporate names; it does not describe how the offices are structured internally or how responsibilities are divided among them.

Place in the book’s publishing material

HarperCollins appears in the publisher information that follows the novel and its accompanying material. A preceding notice directs readers seeking information about Agatha Christie e-books to a Christie website; the subsequent regional directory supplies contact information for HarperCollins entities in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Its function here is reader-facing and administrative: it tells readers where the publisher can be contacted in those markets.

The book’s front matter also states that the work was first published in Great Britain by Collins in 1936. The later HarperCollins directory is distinct from that publication statement: it documents the publisher information supplied in this edition, not the original 1936 imprint. The material thus links the current edition’s publishing apparatus to a long-established book title without supplying a corporate history or describing the organizational changes behind the names.