The Mysterious Mr Quin (Agatha Christie Signature Edition)
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“The book offers a rare treat for discriminating readers.”
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"The book offers a rare treat for discriminating readers." New York Times
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a series of fairly short stories about Agatha Christie's favourite characters, Quin and Satterthwaite. In these stories she combines the paranormal with the logical for a truly amazing combination.
Mr Harley Quin seems to be a man with the unnatural ability to make you see things from a totally different perspective and seems to be an advocate of the dead as wells as acting as cupid. Through the stories you go with a Mr Satterthwaite, a man who likes to observe life and loves watching little dramas unfold, who with little hints and nudges from Mr Quin solves a variety of different murders and mysteries with impressive skill and cunning.
As you read these stories Christie makes you see how by taking things you remember and looking at it from a different angle can give the whole thing new meaning.
I read these stories expecting the usually Agatha Christie style only to find them very different from her more famous stories, starring Hercule Poriot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence and others. Although different and a lot shorter than most of her work The Mysterious Mr Quin doesn't disappoint, they are very clever and entertaining stories.
This series of tales show just how much Agatha Christie deserved the title Queen of Crime. A must read Agatha Christie just so you can see her different styles.
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Christie wrote these stories early in her career, only when she felt a plot had been "sent". In most of her books she is robustly skeptical, but these stories have a supernatural element. Mr Quin - Mr Harley Quin - is inclined to appear mysteriously whenever a mystery needs to be puzzled out. These don't all involve a corpse in the library, some involve theft, or suspicion. But they all involve parted lovers, and Mr Quin is a friend of lovers. He always says he does nothing to help, it's all down to his friend, the small, precise, elf-like, elderly Mr Satterthwaite, who manages to get everywhere because he dearly loves a title and likes to think he knows everybody who is anybody. He has a warm heart, though, and his interventions bring him into contact with a croupier (who turns out to have a soul), a medium (Christie has her usual fun with this character), some American tourists, an engineer, an actress and her entourage. The stories are also full of atmosphere and a sense of place and you feel you too are in a clifftop garden in Madeira (or is it Corsica?), a casino in the South of France, a formal garden in Le Touquet, a cafe in Kew Gardens. Having read the last story once, I can never read it again - it's too sad.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
if you enjoy people watching then this the book for you. It is all about interaction between people. Sometimes it ends in a death, sometimes it doesn't.
It is what happens between the characters that takes the stories forward.
It is also a fascinating insight into upper class in the 1930's.
Highly recommended.
It is what happens between the characters that takes the stories forward.
It is also a fascinating insight into upper class in the 1930's.
Highly recommended.
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Published 1 month ago by A. John Chubb
Christie's favorite characters are mine as well.
As this is a collection of short stories, there is no one first sentence.
Mr. Satterthwaite, although 62 years old, is described as a dried-up man; views on age have changed... Read more
Mr. Satterthwaite, although 62 years old, is described as a dried-up man; views on age have changed... Read more
Published 2 months ago by L. J. Roberts
A wonderful book
The Mr Quin series of short stories are lass well known than most Agatha Christie tales but they are wonderfully written by that great author. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Una
Mr Quin Ruffels Poirot's Moustaches
Great fun. More colourful than Hercule, just as inventive. Off on a tangent, unique. Shows the diversity of Christie. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Nuts O Hazelnuts
The Mysterious Mr Quin
I heard three short stories on the BBC about Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin and discovered that this book contained yet more of them including the denouement in the last... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Malcolm Rigg
HaleyQuin aids
Strange book this one - not at all what you expect from Ms Christie.
Twelve short stories - all featuring Mr Satterthwaite,; snob, elderly English Gentleman and knower... Read more
Twelve short stories - all featuring Mr Satterthwaite,; snob, elderly English Gentleman and knower... Read more
Published on 23 May 2008 by A.K.Farrar
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