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Parker Pyne Investigates, Agatha Christie
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200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1934

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Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (n¨¦e Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.

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9,563 reviews710 followers
March 28, 2022
Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective = Parker Pyne Investigates, Agatha Christie

Parker Pyne Investigates is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by William Collins and Sons in November 1934.

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,
and The Oracle at Delphi.

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4,541 reviews70.5k followers
August 23, 2022
Are you happy? If not consult Mr. Parker Pyne, 17 Richmond Street.
He's not as well-known as Poirot, but he'll still solve a few mysteries along the way.

The Case of the Middle-aged Wife
Parker Pyne helps a frumpy housewife get back at her husband for stepping out with a younger woman.

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The Case of the Discontented Soldier
Ariadne Oliver's first appearance! But she only plays a small role in this short. However, without her, Pyne wouldn't have been able to give an old soldier an adventure that he didn't even know he wanted.

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The Case of the Distressed Lady
A young wife with debts steals her friend's diamond and replaces it with paste.
She's come to Pyne asking if he can help her pull a switcheroo, replace it with the real thing, and lighten her conscience.
It doesn't work out in the way she hoped it would, but the diamond does end up in the right hands.

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The Case of the Discontented Husband
This is the flip side of the first short story, in that Pyne helps a hangdog husband make his cheating wife jealous. Only this time around, he may have misjudged the power of his pretty young assistant.

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The Case of the City Clerk
Mr. Roberts desperately wants an adventure to look back on in his old age. He loves his wife and children and has been a good provider for his family, but he wishes he could have just one MOMENT where he steps out of his predictable life and into some dangerous role.

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Mr. Pyne manages to kill two birds with one stone in this story. Good stuff!

The Case of the Rich Woman
A poor woman becomes incredibly wealthy and finds out that her life has no meaning. She goes to Pyne to get help finding happiness and discovers just how unconventional his methods really are.

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Have You Got Everything You Want?
A jewel theft on the Orient Express leads Pyne to find out about a husband who is the victim of the world's lamest blackmail.
Pyne's advice?
Be honest about the money, but you'll look a lot cooler if you let your wife think she's reformed a real rake.

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The Gate of Baghdad
A crooked financial dude has escaped justice.
Shocking!
Parke Pyne is touring Jordan and makes a comment to the group he is traveling with that the con man might be anywhere by now. Even amongst them right at that moment!
Could that be a prophetic statement?

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A bit of a convoluted murder mystery ensues.
This wasn't one of my favorites, but it was ok.

The House at Shiraz
Parker Pyne is in Teheran when a pilot tells him about his lost love.

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He fell for a lady's maid but she was killed in an accident before he could tell her he loved her.
And in a strange turn of events, the English lady she worked for has been rumored to have gone completely batty and doesn't accept visitors.
Since Pyne knows the family, he decides to pay her a visit and ask her if she is happy before he moves on.

The Pearl of Price
While on a trip from Jordan to Petra, a millionaire's daughter loses her pearl earring worth a small fortune.

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Lucky for her Parker Pyne is among the group of travelers. Can he clear the name of the man she loves?

Death on the Nile
The cantankerous Lady Grayle is upset she has to share the boat she and her family are traveling down the Nile on with a Mr. Parker Pyne. That is, until she decides to ask him for help.
She thinks someone is poisoning her. Does she hope it's her long-suffering husband?
And if so, why?

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This is not to be confused with Christie's more famous full-length novel of the same name.

The Oracle at Delphi
This is one of if not the best Parker Pyne short out there!

A well-off woman is traveling with her bookish son when suddenly he goes missing, and in his place is a ransom note.
Parker Pyne is forced to come out of incognito mode to save a doting mother from a very clever criminal.

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It's the twist at the end that really helped stick the landing. I wasn't expecting it and it took the story from a 4 to a 5.
Recommended for fans of Christie!
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280 reviews455 followers
March 5, 2021
I have read quite a few adventures of Poirot, a couple of books featuring Miss Marple and one Tommy and Tuppence novel. Only the exploits of Mr. Parker Pyne were remaining. With this book I have read most of Pyne¡¯s adventures as well.

This book contains twelve stories featuring our eponymous hero. Mind you, Pyne does not consider himself to be a typical detective, rather he introduces himself as a ¡°heart specialist¡± and can inspire reassurance in people. He places an ad in The Times offering his services to people who are unhappy.

Pyne, a retired civil servant from the department of records, banks on the knowledge of statistics and a small but very diverse team of employees to provide unconventional solutions to his clients. At times he makes a neat profit, and if the case is worth it ¨C he is willing to make a loss as well.
The first six stories are set in the UK where clients would seek his help with a range of issues such as marital discord, boredom with life, a yearning for adventure and romance. The next six stories are conventional detective stories where Pyne would go around helping people and solving crimes ¨C theft, murder, scams, during his visit to the Middle East and finally in Greece.

The stories are decent and can be read very quickly. But, we need to remember that the book was published in 1934. A lot has changed since then. You might find a few things prejudicial in the light of the current values and conventions. Some readers might find the stories a bit dated as well.

If you are a staunch Agatha Christie fan, then you might want to check out this character. I learnt that there are other stories featuring Pyne which were not included in this collection. I would like to check out those as well.
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2,448 reviews1,362 followers
October 2, 2018
I¡¯d already come across Parker Pyne in The Regatta Mystery short story collection (those two stories are also included in this edition).
As I¡¯m trying to read every Christie book, I wasn¡¯t exactly keen to start read a whole collection of just this character.

But I was pleasantly surprised on how much I enjoyed the first few stories. Advertising himself as a person who can make people happy again, the stories set in England has a certain ¡®221b Baker Street¡¯ vibe about them.
Various members of the public respond to he¡¯s newspaper ad and he uses logic to find a way to improve their lives.

The rest of the stories focus on he¡¯s travels aboard, these were more typically the mysteries you¡¯d expect. Thought I wasn¡¯t massively keen on these ones.

Overall it was quite enjoyable, maybe one for the completists.
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July 26, 2024
The first six stories were a delight. The premise linking them is simple. A personal ad is put in the newspaper. It reads: Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne, 17 Richmond Street.

One by one people come to Parker Pyne. He works out why they're unhappy and makes them happy. The magic of these stories is that each one surprises. Parker Pyne is part Sherlock Holmes and Houdini. He observes his clients and knows what to make of the details before him. He also leads each client to an escape from their unhappiness. After reading six of these "cases" I was eager to read six more. Unfortunately, Christie gives up on this excellent premise. Did she run out of ideas?

I was ready to rave about the first six stories. They reminded me of Melville's The Confidence Man and of Bernard Malamud's The Magic Barrel. Then, I read on to the next six stories and had to make myself finish them. This was hard when I got to an insult about Armenians lacking "nerve." Ten years after the near total genocide of the Armenian population in Smyrna by the Turks, this slur is inexcusable. Unlike W. Somerset Maugham who might include an insulting remark to expose the flaw of a character, Christie does not put this insult to any textual use. She just lets it lie as if it were true. Shame on her.
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195 reviews123 followers
January 21, 2020
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1,306 reviews2,570 followers
August 17, 2017
Parker Pyne is a different specimen from the Christie universe. He is not your conventional detective, but a person who provides "happiness"; his ad in the paper says: "Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne." Having worked in the Statistical Bureau his whole life, Mr. Pyne knows that unhappiness can be classified under six heads - no more, no less.

That said, apart from the first six stories, the others are all conventional stories of detection. I think Dame Agatha ran out of ideas for unhappy clients and returned to what she was good at.

I loved most of the stories in this collection. My favourite is "The House at Shiraz".
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124 reviews19 followers
April 12, 2023
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1,432 reviews791 followers
April 3, 2023
Sinopsis: El libro presenta 12 historias cortas. La mayor parte de los casos son resueltos por el personaje Parker Pyne, que, m¨¢s que un detective, es un profesional en la b¨²squeda de la felicidad de quienes responden a su anuncio. El anuncio dice cosas como: ¡°?Usted es feliz? Si la respuesta es no, acuda al Sr. Parker Pyne, etc. etc.¡±.
Parker Pyne soluciona los m¨¢s variados problemas: amor, traici¨®n, tedio, enga?o, robo... Y resulta interesante c¨®mo establece el precio de sus servicios de una forma completamente subjetiva: seg¨²n las posibilidades y la motivaci¨®n del cliente.
No pensaba que eran relatos cortos pero me han sorprendido en general, lo que pasa que eran algunos tan cortos que me he quedado con ganas de mas o de un mayor desarrollo.
Mis valoraciones:
-El caso de la esposa de mediana edad 5/10
-El caso del soldado descontento 6/10
-El caso de la dama acongojada 6/10
-El caso del esposo descontento 6,5/10
-El caso del empleado de la City 6.5/10
-El caso de la mujer Rica 7/10
-?Tiene usted todo lo que desea? 5/10
-La puerta de Bagdad 6/10
-La casa de Shiraz 5/10
-La Perla de valor 5/10
-Muerte en el Nilo 6/10
-El or¨¢culo de Delfos 6/10.
Valoraci¨®n: 5.8/10
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1,326 reviews219 followers
October 20, 2020
Another easy read from Christie, this time a selection of short stories featuring the intriguing Parker Pyne. This gentleman is not an investigator per se, but rather a student of human behaviour and psyche, a bit like Miss Marple but with more statistics. With his acquired knowledge, he sets out to sell ¡®happiness¡¯ to people, in a rather smart and surprising way.

I rather enjoyed these, trying to fathom what Pyne had planned for his ¡®clients¡¯. As soon as you believe you know the ¡®formula¡¯, Christie changes the narration, first with some nice turnarounds, and then by having her protagonists go on a holiday abroad, or rather trying to since people keep accosting him to solve their problems :O)
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1,882 reviews4,242 followers
February 28, 2021
3.5 stars -- There are some very charming stories in this one. I tended to enjoy the ones where the stakes were lower than the typical Christie story (e.g. not murdery), and there were some very "of its time" elements that jarred me out of the stories. Still, overall, these were a fun example of what Christie excels at
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1,508 reviews117 followers
September 10, 2019
A solid 3.5. A dozen short stories where a middle aged retired civil servant called Parker Pyne investigates and resolves people¡¯s unhappiness. He advertises in newspapers ¡®¡¯Are you happy? If not, consult me Parker Pyne. ¡®¡¯

The stories are a mixture of fantasy, crime and psychology is used to resolve their unhappiness. The stories are initially set in England. The later ones are set in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Iran where Parker Pyne while on holiday keeps finding new clients. Some of the stories are amusing and I liked the one when someone impersonated him as well as the dull man looking for excitement. The trip to Switzerland and train trip back was a great cliche espionage story.
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84 reviews184 followers
August 20, 2018
Parker Pyne is not a detective, he is, as he describes himself, a heart specialist. He has an advertisement in newspaper: ¡°Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne.¡±

In this book Agatha Christi changes her story writing a little: first, this is a collection of 12 short stories and second Agatha tries to challenge the psychological aspects of the characters. But after the first seven story, we see that she again comes back to her conventional writing story and makes a detective from Parker Pyne also.

The psychological stories can be divided into following categories:

1- A middle-aged woman who is not satisfied with her marital life; her husband betrays her and he thinks his wife is jealous of him,
2- A man whose wife does not like him anymore and she wants to get married with another man,
3- A man whose life¡¯s become boring and he doesn¡¯t feel any excitement,
4- A wealthy widow whose rich life does not attracts her anymore and life becomes monotonous for her.

I found the approaches that Agatha suggests to the characters in the form of Parker Pyne, natural and reasonable. Agatha¡¯s understanding was good for women as well as men:
Each person at any age has his/her own unique charms and she/he should be proud of them and work on them to make them better. There are some behaviors like contentment for instance which although they are good in general, they can be harmful sometimes over the time and may lose their meaning in relationships. Sometimes musts should be put aside to make life happier. There are some specifications which can be said they have become intrinsic, there are some activities that people are interested in them or not. There is no reason that a person should underestimate her/his interests. Too much humility is not good and does not work. Excitement and variety can be made in life by small things. Sometimes by changing some habitual habits to positive way can be exciting. One other message of Agatha is that wealth without love cannot bring happiness (specially for a woman).

The other six stories are criminal and they are attractive in their own way. The stories are happening in different countries (especially Eastern countries), such as: Iraq, Iran, Oman and Greece. My favorite criminal story was ¡°The House at Shiraz¡±:

JUST AFTER NOON the following day, Mr. Parker Pyne had his first view of Shiraz. They had flown over mountain ranges with narrow, desolate valleys between, and all arid, parched, dry wilderness. Then suddenly Shiraz came into view¡ªan emerald-green jewel in the heart of the wilderness.
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221 reviews166 followers
March 16, 2019
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938 reviews26 followers
December 15, 2020
Me ha gustado mucho este libro en el cual Parker Pyne ayuda a la gente a ser "feliz"a lo largo de 12 relatos muy interesantes y diferentes.
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Author?4 books323 followers
August 5, 2019
Light read. Agatha Christie created the character Parker Pyne for twelve short stories published between 1932 to 1933. These were then compiled in a single edition Parker Pyne investigates and published in 1934. However this edition published in 2005 includes two more stories that were originally published in Strand with Hercule Poirot as ace investigator. The fourteen stories in this stories are a delight to read. My personal favourite is The Oracle at Delhi for its interesting twist at the very last line of the story. In the foreword written for special edition published by Penguin in 1953 Agatha Christie had picked Case of the discontented husband and Case of the rich woman as her personal favourite
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63 reviews55 followers
June 20, 2024
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700 reviews12 followers
November 15, 2022
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81 reviews52 followers
February 8, 2010
Parker Pyne is the most emotional of Christie's detectives, preferring matters of the heart to pure puzzles. However, he can be just as sharp in his deductions as Poirot or Miss Marple when the need arises. As it happens, I prefer the stories in this collection that *are* mysteries. There are also some lighthearted cases of people wanting more romance or adventure in their lives, which Mr. Pyne supplies. I couldn't help feeling, at first, that it's a bit condescending to suggest that most people's problems are easily solved with a bit of play-acting--a handsome man/woman to make your wife/husband jealous, a faked bit of espionage to bring you more drama, etc. I found myself thinking, "what about all the people with real problems, Agatha?" However, she published this collection in 1934, which gives some insight into the fantasy at work here: most likely her mid-Depression readers simply wanted to *imagine* having such easy problems and tidy solutions.

Even so, I like the stories that do involve murder and crime, as Christie proves herself quite adept at packing her famous twists into even a few pages. I prefer novel-length Christie, but she approximates it here with an overarching narrative, in which Pyne travels abroad, including the first "Death on the Nile"--which is quite different from the later novel of that name. In this way we get to know the main characters (Pyne and his employees, most notably the exotic Miss de Sara). There is even an early cameo from Miss Oliver! All of which makes this a necessary inclusion for any Christie collection.
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140 reviews13 followers
May 20, 2023
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4,566 reviews233 followers
October 13, 2020
A series of light problems and mysteries brought by dissatisfied or unhappy spouses, bored or desperate individuals to Mr. Parker Pyne, a detective of sorts, who applies psychology, cleverness, and the occasional actor, to solve them. I can¡¯t say that I remember the details of any of the short stories, but I did enjoy this book.
Actually, that¡¯s not entirely true; I was chuffed to encounter the wonderful Ariadne Oliver, and her ever-present bag of apples, crafting narratives for Pyne.
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Author?20 books138 followers
March 3, 2022
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1,395 reviews144 followers
June 1, 2024
This was a fun listen! I love the whole concept of Parker Pyne and his experience and statistics that give him a Poirot-like ability to solve problems and unravel mysteries. The first half of the short stories are all based in England and I especially enjoyed Pyne¡¯s employees who pop in and out. The second half are short stories set abroad¡ªmostly in the Middle East¡ªand some of these are miniature murder mysteries and quite clever. The last story¡ªThe Oracle at Delphi¡ªwas particularly clever and a great way to end the collection. I can see why Parker Pyne gets overshadowed by Christie¡¯s other creations but he is definitely worth spending some time with.
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1,091 reviews726 followers
March 3, 2021
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Se la risposta ¨¨ no, consultate Mr Parker Pyne,
17 Richmond Street.
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Ecco l¡¯annuncio che ogni mattina compare sui maggiori quotidiani inglesi a stuzzicare la curiosit¨¤ dei lettori (infelici).
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12 racconti in cui il signor Parker Pyne d¨¤ il meglio di s¨¦ per portare un po¡¯ di felicit¨¤ nelle persone che chiedono il suo aiuto.
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Il signor Pyne ¨¨ quasi infallibile, quasi, esatto. E il fatto che sia imperfetto me l¡¯ha fatto apprezzare di pi¨´ perch¨¦ l¡¯ha reso pi¨´ realistico. E a renderlo ancora pi¨´ credibile sono le sue uscite sessiste che potrebbe risparmiarsi. Certo, tutto va collocato nell¡¯epoca in cui Agatha Christie ha scritto questi racconti e ideato questo personaggio, non possiamo fargliene una colpa, n¨¦ a lei (che si ¨¨ calata bene nella mentalit¨¤ dell¡¯epoca), n¨¦ a Parker Pyne (che ¨¨ servito alla famosa scrittrice di gialli anche per questo scopo).
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Parker Pyne indaga, letto per la #readchristie2021 con l¡¯invito di @libriamociblog che ringrazio per l¡¯opportunit¨¤, ¨¨ un libro che ho apprezzato e che mi sento di consigliare.
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Ho letto un racconto al giorno, e non posso negare che sono stata intrattenuta dalla lettura. Mi ha pure sorpreso il cambio repentino della location: nei primi racconti Parker Pyne se ne sta bellamente seduto nel suo ufficio a risolvere i casi pi¨´ disparati assieme all¡¯aiuto di fidati collaboratori, negli ultimi invece li risolve in vacanza in giro per il mondo, usando solo le sue capacit¨¤ logiche e deduttive.
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Certo, non ¨¨ uno dei migliori libri di Agatha Christie, cos¨¬ come Parker Pyne non ¨¨ uno dei migliori detective inventati dalla maestra del giallo, ma ¨¨ stata una lettura che mi ha permesso di scoprire una Christie diversa, inedita, e la cosa mi ha fatto solo che piacere.
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