Parker Pyne: Parker Pyne Investigates Lib/E : A Parker Pyne Collection (CD-Audio)

from JenniferRobb

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 s...

from smik

First published in 1934, the edition I read was published by Fontana/Collins in 1974. 158 pages. The cover image to the right was the original one used on the dust jacket in 1934, and seems to me to be a good likeness of portly and avuncular Mr Parker Pyne. This title is a collection of 12 of the...

from MrsLee

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...

from Hanneri

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 ad...

from cathyskye

After reading two of Agatha Christie's short stories featuring the very unconventional private investigator, Parker Pyne, I knew I had to read more, so when I came across this collection, I grabbed it. Pyne relies upon his thirty-five years in a government office compiling statistics to help him ...