Book description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the
first time as an ebook.
It's been many years since Mr. Satterthwaite has seen Mr. Harley Quin,
so when Satterthwaite, awaiting his broken down car, goes to a tea shop
called the Harlequin café, he begins to think of his friend. A
self-described snob, Satterthwaite orders coffee and examines the
coloured china when a bolt of sunlight comes in and the very same Mr.
Quin walks through the door. Enigmatic as ever Mr. Quin and his diligent
dog Hermes stay for a Turkish coffee with the excitable Satterthwaite
whilst the car is fixed, and Satterthwaite cannot help but bore Mr. Quin
with the very long history of the family he is off to visit. Their
conversation is interrupted by the abrupt entrance of the member of that
very same family intent upon replacing her harlequin cups. Satterthwaite
desperately persuades Quin to accompany him, but, all the bereft
Satterthwaite is left with is one word, 'Daltonism.' What is the
importance of Quin turning up at the tea shop on that day and what does
that word have to do with anything, it all comes to make complete sense.
'The plots are so good that one marvels … most of them would have made a
full length thriller.' Daily Mirror 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 100 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.
