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The Regatta Mystery
The Regatta Mystery: And Other Stories | Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie is the most popular mystery writer of all time. With over two billion copies of her books in print, her genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime... There's a body in a trunk, a dead girl's reflection caught in a mirror, one corpse back from the grave, and another 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 Jane Marple, and Mr. Parker Pyne - and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers. Book jacket.
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CogsOfEncouragement
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This is the 15th Agatha Christie book I‘ve read. Some novels, and some collections like this. These were clever. Two I actually had figured out, which I enjoy of course. #scarathlon

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Preciouz29
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Like returning to an old friend.

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Scochrane26
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I liked these 9 stories featuring Poirot, Miss Marple, & Parker Pyne. Most of them are Poirot mysteries. A little easier to play armchair detective because the length means not as many red herrings. #scarathlon #teamslaughter @Clwojick 136 points

Clwojick Oooo. I need to see if this on is available with my library. 4y
Scochrane26 @Clwojick There‘s several collections of short stories, so I picked what was available. It‘s a pretty fast read. 4y
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umbrellagirl
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Switching back to Poirot short stories. #myyearwithagatha

BookishMe Nemesis is my next MM read! I may listen to the dramatised audio first 5y
umbrellagirl @BookishMe it‘s a good one! 5y
BookishMe @umbrellagirl 👌🏾👌🏾 5y
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sparrowssavvy
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Definitely one of my favourite collections of short stories from Agatha Christie. Each was a great little tale!

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Brie
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More short stories from Agatha Christie, this time featuring not only Poirot but Miss Marple and Parker Pyne too! I‘ve never read anything featuring Pyne so I enjoyed his cases particularly.

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rabbitprincess
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Probably more of a so-so than a pick. This isn't one of the Christies I would make a habit of re-reading. That said, I did inadvertently re-read it because two of the stories appear in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding.

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suzisteffen
Mehso-so

Whew those early Poirot stories are r a c i s t as f. Ugh. The Parker Pyne ones are interesting, and I had quite forgotten him. The Marple one remains decent. Overall, meh.

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suzisteffen

Havin a mini Christie fest over here while the like 50:books I had plans to read sort of ... drift. 😂😂😂😳🕵🏻‍♂️🕵🏼‍♀️🏹🔪🧨🗡🚬⚰️🧪💉

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VictoriaB
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Enjoyable book of short stories featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Markle, and Parker Pyne. My only complaint - the short stories were so....short.

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Eggs
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Skeebies05 This reminds me of old classic movies. They did a lot of slapping of women. 😬😬 6y
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glitterkitty459
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#EclecticReadathon stats!
I read for about 4 1/2 hours
Finished the two books in the pic, started a few others
I got 44 points total from the scavenger hunt and the check-ins 😁
Thanks @EclecticReaders for this fun readathon!!!

EclecticReaders Great finals stats. Glad to hear you had fun! Thank you! 7y
RadicalReader @glitterkitty459 the panda instantly had me thinking of Po from Kung Fu Panda 7y
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glitterkitty459
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Made it to 4 hours for the #EclecticReadathon and the #8intwo !!! 😁

EclecticReaders 🙌🙌🙌 7y
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Jess_Read_This
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"What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. [...] No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance."

? I never thought about aging quite like that. I'd like to hope to give individuality a chance sooner.

? #AnimalCovers meets #WhoDunitWednesday in #Riotgrams.

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Sophieneechan
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Tea and Agatha Christie - it doesn't really get better than that.

lifeless1 Someone's getting their Brit on today! 😉 8y
Sophieneechan @lifeless1 I've always got my Brit on 😂I grew up with Agatha Christie, so now I'm just reading through all of her books that I haven't read yet (and some that I have, but just want to re-read) ☺ 8y
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MrsLea
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As they talked, her eye met that of Mr. Parker Pyne. It passed over him with well-bred nonchalance, but he knew that he had been assimilated and labeled.