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(3.93) | 1 | Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie's wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories-a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit. There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes. In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest-Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne-and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.… (more) |
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I don't think I've ever told you, my dears--you Raymond, and you, Joyce, about a rather curious little business that happened some years ago now. | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie's wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories-a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit. There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes. In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest-Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne-and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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"'Miss Marple Tells a Story' was specially commissioned by the BBC as a radio play and read by Christie herself on May 11, 1934 on BBC's National Programme. No print publications of the story prior to 1939 are known." Wikipedia pageIn: Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, the Complete Short Stories, (Boston, MA : G.K. Hall & Co., 1987, c1985) pp.281-294. (various reprintings) Also in: Agatha Christie, Miss Marple's Final Cases (London : Collins, 1979) (various reprintings) Also in: Agatha Christie, Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (New York : Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1939 | |
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