The Harlequin Tea Set
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Publisher Description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio.
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?
Reviews
‘The plots are so good that one marvels … most of them would have made a full length thriller.’ Daily Mirror
About the author
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.
Customer Reviews
So many details
A story centered on the lives of people in the countryside always full of irony and terrible gossips. I liked the way people and places are portraited. So essential but so personal. Often it seemed to be there. What didn’t resonate so much are the values of unimportant details of the characters which instead in those entourages seemed to be prominent. But any author who is able to create stories without major plot twists and hold so well the listener or reader attention must be a winner.