The Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 creator text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats 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.) The coming of Mr. Quin -- The shadow on the glass -- At the "Bells and Motley" -- The sign in the sky -- The soul of the croupier -- The world's end -- The voice in the dark -- The face of Helen -- The dead Harlequin -- The bird with the broken wing -- The man from the sea -- Harlequin's Lane. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Mr_Quin Release date is 2026-03-01 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Originally published: New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1930 Detective and mystery stories, English Short stories, English PR New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1930 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78084 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78084 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134817.0 78084