Mr. Harley Quin turns up mysteriously at a house party. It's dark and cold, with snow drifts everywhere, when Mr. Harley Quin appears at the door of Royston Hall stating that his car has broken down. There he helps Mr Satterthwaite clear up the mystery of a death which took place ten years before but continues to haunt some of those present.
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The Sign in the Sky
Mr Satterthwaite attends the trial of young Martin Wylde accused of murder. Shortly after the guilty verdict is returned, Satterthwaite runs into his mysterious friend Harley Quin. Can they prove Wylde’s innocence or did he really kill the beautiful Vivien Barnaby? In this story he has to travel all the way to Banff in Canada to solve the mystery.
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The Love Detectives
While visiting Colonel Melrose, Mr Satterthwaite hears of the murder of Sir James Dwighton, who had recently been in a messy love triangle and the wife and her lover are immediately suspected. But a chance meeting with Mr Quin, changes Satterthwaite's perception of the facts.
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At the Bells and Motley
A man disappeared from a house in the village of Kirklington Mallet, leaving his wife and all their possessions. Satterthwaite and Quin talk through the details of the mystery and finally see it for what it was.
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The Soul of the Croupier
Whilst holidaying in the principality, Mr. Satterthwaite watches as a young American man falls in love with a mystifying Countess. Soon after a bit of gambling at which he was not successful, he bumps into Harley Quin and they invite their new friends for an intimate dinner that reveals dark secrets about one of the guest.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages.