Parker Pyne advertises himself not as a detective but as a man who can repair unhappiness, and the clients who answer that notice supply the cases in this collection.
Agatha Christie gathers short stories in which a retired statistician applies what he learned about human patterns to marital trouble, boredom, theft and worse. Some pieces are light arrangements engineered for a client's benefit; others turn into genuine criminal puzzles, several of them set during travel in the Middle East. The brevity suits the premise, since each problem is posed and settled within a few pages.
Points readers tend to highlight:
• A short-story collection rather than a single novel-length case
• An unconventional investigator who treats discontent as a solvable problem
• Several stories set abroad during journeys and holidays
• Harper Collins edition for readers filling out a Christie shelf
For fans of short crime fiction and lesser-known Christie characters, published by Harper Collins and available at Boipoka.
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