 Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition | |
| Author | Mary Westmacott (pseudonym of Agatha Christie) |
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| Cover artist | Kenneth Farnhill |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Heinemann |
Publication date | 12 November 1956 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 236 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
| Preceded by | Dead Man's Folly |
| Followed by | 4.50 from Paddington |
The Burden is a novel written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Heinemann on 12 November 1956. Initially not published in the US, it was later issued as a paperback by Dell Publishing in September 1963. It was the last of six novels Christie wrote under the nom-de-plume Mary Westmacott.