Detectives and Young Adventurers: The Complete Short Stories

Detectives and Young Adventurers: The Complete Short Stories
Agatha Christie

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”.

Agatha Christie

Detectives

and

Young Adventurers

The Complete Short Stories

Copyright

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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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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The publishers would like to acknowledge the help of Karl Pike in the preparation of this volume.

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Contents

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Copyright

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