num_pages: 185
description: Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and the wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit.There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes.In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest—Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne—and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.This edition is part of the Bantam Agatha Christie Mystery Collection leatherette-bound set with gold emblems front and spine on dark navy texture, marbled inside papers, front and back.
language: English
title: The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (Hercule Poirot, #21)
characters: Miss Marple, Miss Lemon, Mr. Parker Pyne, Hercule Poirot
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Classics, British Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Anthologies, Short Stories, Audiobook
ratings_count: 9940
places: England
series: Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot Short Story, Parker Pyne, Hercule Poirot
publisher: Bantam Books