by Agatha Christie
This is a collection of twelve short stories, all pretty enjoyable, if somewhat disconcerting. Mr. Parker Pyne is one terrifying individual with some rather questionable views on women, marriage, and how to achieve happiness (lying, assault, and kidnapping are all acceptable methods according to him...
Love it. I haven’t even finished it, only read the first two of the book’s 12 stories, but I know the rest will be just as delightful. Not surprising, really. The back blurb states that there are two billion copies of Christie’s books in print, and that was written in 1984. Obviously, I’m not the on...
I've read plenty of Agatha Christie's work, and I have to say that this is quite different from anything else of hers I've read. Instead of being a single mystery, or a set of four medium-length whodunits, "Parker Pyne Investigates" is a collection of approximately seven or eight mini-mysteries, st...
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