Mr Parker Pyne, Detective

Mr Parker Pyne, Detective is a short story collection published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1934. It is the parallel title of Parker Pyne Investigates published in the U.K. by Collins.

Contents

The U.S. title contains the same content as its U.K. counterpart.

• 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
• The Oracle at Delphi

Publication History

• 1934: Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1934, Hardcover, 244 pp.
• 1946: Best Seller Mystery B79, Lawrence Spivak, 1940.
• 1951: Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 550 mapback), 224 pp
• 1962: Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 158 pp

In the 1980s some US publishers began using the UK title.