The Affair at the Victory Ball is a short story by Agatha Christie, and the first short story to feature Hercule Poirot. The story was first published in The Sketch in March 1923 in the U.K. It was the first of a series of 12 short stories about Poirot which Bruce Ingram, then editor of the Sketch commissioned from Christie because of her success with the character in Styles.

Victory Ball was published in the U.S. in The Blue Book Magazine in September 1923. In 1951, the story appeared as part of the anthology The Underdog and Other Stories published in the U.S. In the U.K., the story was anthologized and published as part of Poirot's Early Cases in 1974.

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