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by Agatha Christie · 1890–1976
The Mysterious Mr Quin is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 14 April 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. Each chapter or story involves a separate mystery that is solved through the interaction between the characters of Mr Satterthwaite, an elderly socialite, and the eponymous Mr Quin who appears almost magically at the most opportune moments and disappears just as mysteriously. In her foreword to the collection, Christie states: "Mr Quin, I consider, is an epicure's taste." (HarperCollins 2017 p. vii) Her husband Max Mallowan described the stories as "detection written in a fanciful vein, touching on the fairy story, a natural product of Agatha's peculiar imagination." Christie's favourite stories were 'The World's End', 'The Man from the Sea' and 'Harlequin's Lane'. (p. viii) (This summary is from Wikipedia.)
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- Read time
- 357 min
- Words
- 78,462
- Chapters
- 12
- Paragraphs
- 2,822
- Price
- Free
- Detective and mystery stories, English
- Short stories, English
"That is a curious idea of yours," said Mr. Satterthwaite slowly.
„Das ist eine seltsame Idee von Ihnen“, sagte Mr. Satterthwaite langsam.
"That one sees things better afterward than at the time."
„Man sieht die Dinge später besser, als man es zur Zeit des Geschehens tut.“
"The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion.
„Je länger die Zeit vergangen ist, desto mehr rücken die Dinge ins rechte Verhältnis.
One sees them in their true relationship to one another."
Man sieht sie in ihrer wahren Beziehung zueinander.“
About the author
Agatha Christie1890–1976
Agatha Christie was an English writer born in 1890 in Torquay and died in 1976 in Winterbrook.
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Book details
- Original language
- English
- Translation
- German, machine translation
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #78084
- Licence
- Public domain in the United States
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