Detectives and Young Adventurers: The Complete Short Stories
A bumper omnibus gathering together over 50 classic Agatha Christie stories featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Harley Quin, Parker Pyne and Hercule Poirot, plus her rare Christmas Stories not available in any other volume.This new compendium of over 50 stories is the first time all the stories featuring Agatha Christie’s detectives have been collected together. Here you will meet -PARKER PYNE – a consulting detective whose practice is to solve less murderous enigmas and restore happiness to his clients;HARLEY QUIN – a tall, dark, mysterious young man who takes a more surreptitious approach to solving crime;TOMMY AND TUPPENCE BERESFORD – a newly married pair of self-styled ‘Young Adventurers’ who are prepared to do anything in the name of justice.And in addition to presenting the complete oeuvre for these detectives, this volume includes as a bonus four rare short stories featuring that grand master of detection, Monsieur HERCULE POIROT, plus Agatha Christie’s little-known Christmas stories written for children, including “Star Over Bethlehem” and “The Naughty Donkey”.
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Agatha Christie
Detectives
and Young Adventurers The Complete Short Stories
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
This collection first published 2008
Copyright © 2008 Agatha Christie Ltd.
Agatha Christie asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Contents
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Part One - Tommy & Tuppence: Young Adventurers Ltd
Author’s Foreword
Chapter 1 - A Fairy in the Flat
Chapter 2 - The Affair of the Pink Pearl
Chapter 3 - The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
Chapter 4 - Finessing the King
Chapter 5 - The Case of the Missing Lady
Chapter 6 - Blindman’s Buff
Chapter 7 - The Man in the Mist
Chapter 8 - The Crackler
Chapter 9 - The Sunningdale Mystery
Chapter 10 - The House of Lurking Death
Chapter 11 - The Unbreakable Alibi
Chapter 12 - The Clergyman’s Daughter
Chapter 13 - The Ambassador’s Boots
Chapter 14 - The Man Who Was No. 16
Part Two - The Mysterious Harley Quin
Author’s Foreword
Chapter 1 - The Coming of Mr Quin
Chapter 2 - The Shadow on the Glass
Chapter 3 - At the ‘Bells and Motley’
Chapter 4 - The Sign in the Sky
Chapter 5 - The Soul of the Croupier
Chapter 6 - The Man from the Sea
Chapter 7 - The Voice in the Dark
Chapter 8 - The Face of Helen
Chapter 9 - The Dead Harlequin
Chapter 10 - The Bird with the Broken Wing
Chapter 11 - The World’s End
Chapter 12 - Harlequin’s Lane
Chapter 13 - The Love Detectives
Chapter 14 - The Harlequin Tea Set
Part Three - Parker Pyne, Investigator
Author’s Foreword
Chapter 1 - The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
Chapter 2 - The Case of the Discontented Soldier
Chapter 3 - The Case of the Distressed Lady
Chapter 4 - The Case of the Discontented Husband
Chapter 5 - The Case of the City Clerk
Chapter 6 - The Case of the Rich Woman
Chapter 7 - Have You Got Everything You Want?
Chapter 8 - The Gate of Baghdad
Chapter 9 - The House at Shiraz
Chapter 10 - The Pearl of Price
Chapter 11 - Death on the Nile
Chapter 12 - The Oracle at Delphi
Chapter 13 - Problem at Pollensa Bay
Chapter 14 - The Regatta Mystery
Part Four - Hercule Poirot: Belgian Detective
Editor’s note
Chapter 1 - The Submarine Plans
Chapter 2 - Christmas Adventure
Chapter 3 - The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
Chapter 4 - The Second Gong
Postscript - The Christmas Stories
Editor’s note
Chapter 1 - Star Over Bethlehem
Chapter 2 - The Naughty Donkey
Chapter 3 - The Water Bus
Chapter 4 - In the Cool of the Evening
Chapter 5 - Promotion in the Highest
Chapter 6 - The Island
Appendix - Short Story Chronology
Books by Agatha Christie
ALSO IN THIS SERIES
Agatha Christie - HERCULE POIROT: The Complete Short Stories
Agatha Christie - POIROT in the ORIENT
Agatha Christie - POIROT: The WAR Years
Agatha Christie - POIROT: The FRENCH Collection
Agatha Christie - POIROT: The Complete Battles of HASTINGS
ALSO AVAILABLE
Agatha Christie - The MARY WESTMACOTT - Collection
Agatha Christie - The MARY WESTMACOTT - Collection
Agatha Christie Mallowan - COME, TELL ME HOW YOU LIVE
Part One
Tommy & Tuppence: Young Adventurers Ltd
Author’s Foreword
I published a book of short stories called Partners in Crime. Each story here was written in the manner of some particular detective of the time. Some of them by now I cannot even recognize. I remember Thornley Colton, the blind detective – Austin Freeman, of course; Freeman Wills Croft with his wonderful timetables; and inevitably Sherlock Holmes. It is interesting in a way to see who of the twelve detective story writers that I chose are still well known – some are household names, others have more or less perished in oblivion. They all seemed to me at the time to write well and entertainingly in their different fashions. Partners in Crime featured in it my two young sleuths, Tommy and Tuppence, who had been the principal characters in my second book, The Secret Adversary. It was fun to get back to them for a change.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
from An Autobiography, 1977
Chapter 1
A Fairy in the Flat
