Detectives and Young Adventurers: The Complete Short Stories is a collection of short stories by Agatha Christie first published by HarperCollins in 2008. This is an eclectic collection which includes stories featuring Tommy and Tuppence, Parker Pyne, Harley Quin, Hercule Poirot and also some of Agatha's Christmas stories first published in Star Over Bethlehem. The book is also available as a paperback and also as an ebook (2011).
Blurb[]
(from publisher's website)
A brand new 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”.[1]
List of short stories[]
Tommy and Tuppence[]
- A Fairy in the Flat
- The Affair of the Pink Pearl
- The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger
- Finessing the King
- The Case of the Missing Lady
- Blindman's Buff
- The Man in the Mist
- The Crackler
- The Sunningdale Mystery
- The House of Lurking Death
- The Unbreakable Alibi
- The Clergyman's Daughter
- The Ambassador's Boots
- The Man Who Was No. 16
The Mysterious Harley Quin[]
- The Coming of Mr Quin
- The Shadow on the Glass
- At the 'Bells and Motley'
- The Sign in the Sky
- The Soul of the Croupier
- The Man from the Sea
- The Voice in the Dark
- The Face of Helen
- The Dead Harlequin
- The Bird with the Broken Wing
- The World's End
- Harlequin's Lane
- The Love Detectives
- The Harlequin Tea Set
Parker Pyne, Investigator[]
- The Case of the Middle-aged Wife
- The Case of the Discontented Soldier
- The Case of the Distressed Lady
- The Case of the Discontented Husband
- The Case of the City Clerk
- The Case of the Rich Woman
- Have You Got Everything You Want?
- The Gate of Baghdad
- The House at Shiraz
- The Pearl of Price
- Death on the Nile (short story)
- The Oracle at Delphi
- Problem at Pollensa Bay
- The Regatta Mystery
Hercule Poirot: Belgian Detective[]
The Christmas Stories[]
- Star Over Bethlehem
- The Naughty Donkey
- The Water Bus
- In the Cool of the Evening
- Promotion in the Highest
- The Island