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    Parker Pyne Investigates: A Parker Pyne Collection
    Parker Pyne Investigates: A Parker Pyne Collection
    Parker Pyne Investigates: A Parker Pyne Collection
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    Parker Pyne Investigates: A Parker Pyne Collection

    Written by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Agatha Christie once again demonstrates her mastery of the short form mystery with Parker Pyne Investigates—short stories of crime and detection featuring Parker Pyne, certainly one of the most unconventional private investigators ever to pursue a hot lead.

    Mrs. Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in the Times that read: ""Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne.""

    Equally adept at putting together the fragments of a murder mystery or the pieces of a broken marriage, Mr. Parker Pyne is possibly the world's most unconventional private investigator. Armed with just his intuitive knowledge of human nature, he is an Englishman abroad, traveling the globe to solve and undo crime and misdemeanor.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJul 3, 2012
    ISBN9780062231628
    Parker Pyne Investigates: A Parker Pyne Collection
    Author

    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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    • 2/5
      One of Christie’s more unusual detectives, there is certainly nothing wrong with Parker Pyne – indeed, I think he would make an interesting lead for an adaptation of this novel. Beginning as a retiree who wishes to help lovers investigate their dilemmas, Pyne evolves into a middle-era Poirot, trying to avoid cases but finding them piling up wherever he goes.

      Christie’s short story skills were never as great as her novel construction, and neither the clients nor detective manage to jump off the page to make much of an impression. It’s not a bad book – it’s definitely a step up from "The Big Four", that’s for sure! but I’m not that surprised that Dame Agatha never returned to Mr. Pyne.

      Incidentally, two of the stories were adapted for television as part of "The Agatha Christie Hour", while this collection also features the first appearances of Poirot’s sidekicks Miss Lemon and Ariadne Oliver.
    • 3/5
      In this collection of short stories, Mr. Parker Pyne is a middle-aged retiree from a job in statistics, and he applies the knowledge he gained through his work towards the goal of helping make people happy. The first few stories take place in England, and mostly involve Pyne creating elaborate adventures for his clients, that they think are happening naturally. In the second half of the book, Pyne goes on holiday to the Middle East, Egypt, and Greece, and finds himself in the role of detective, solving murders and thefts.Considering that I am not a fan of short stories, this was quite enjoyable.
    • 5/5
      Easy listening with a collection of short stories. Parker Pyne solves the problems of life - nothing is impossible!
    • 4/5
      Definitely one of the books that shows Dame Agatha's weird personal feelings about relations between men and women as universal absolutes in the advice that Parker Pyne states.Some casual colonialism, exoticism, and ableism, as expected, especially in the stories set in the Middle East. I am *incredibly fascinated* by the throwaway mention in the story "The House at Shiraz" about the German pilot regarding the fact that he's seen madness before, in the eyes of his submarine captain. I just finished reading about the Lusitania and have been on a general post-WWI reading kick, and now I'm curious about if contemporaneous British thought was that u-boat captains were some sort of special evil, so that other Germans, including those who served on the u-boats, could be re-integretated into society without stigma.
    • 4/5
      A friend gave me a copy of this book for Christmas. I've tried to read Agatha Christie in the past without much success but my friend said this character and these stories were a bit different than Christie's Poirot and Marple stories. I may end up giving Christie another try at some point.In some of the stories, I do agree with the reviewer who compared it to the TV show "Fantasy Island"--wish-fulfillment, though in some cases the outcome isn't exactly what was expected.
    • 4/5
      Solid collection of short stories, which feature ex-government employee Parker Pyne, who uses statistics to aid him in resolving "unhappiness" among his clients. Don't take the mysteries too terribly seriously; after all, the short story isn't the medium in which to develop plots and characters very deeply. The settings are what count, here. The last half of them take place in familiar country for Christie, the Middle East, where she spent many years on digs with her husband (and, in fact, an archaeologist is one of the villains in one story). Better than many longer-length Christie novels, in fact.
    • 4/5
      Interesting premise whereby an ex-civil servant, who worked in some kind of stastical analysis, sets himself to happy people become happy. He is not always successful. There is a generally a twist in the tale which makes these stories enjoyable. This collection is also noteworthy for introducing Ariadne Oliver, who appears in some of the later Poirot novels.
    • 4/5
      I might have kept this, except it was falling apart. It was fun, the consensus of the debate in the Golden Age Detectives fan site was, this came after Poirot, but sometimes they were interchangeable. They are very similar. To begin with, the stories are not so much mysteries, as sort of fix your life kind of stuff. Cute. Further in, the detective actually has to solve a mystery before he can fix the lives of people.