CHRISTIE, Agatha. Mr. Parker Pyne Detective. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.1934.
8vo. Original publisher's orange cloth with black lettering to front board and spine, roughedge pages with topedge orange; orange, black and yellow dustjacket with advertisements to rear panel; pp. [vi], 244, [6]; bumping to top and bottom of spine, foxing to bottom and foreedge with discolouration to red topedge, some foxing to prelimnaries; slight loss to top and bottom of dustjacket spine with creasing to corners and general fading to rear panel and both flaps; otherwise very good.
First US edition
“Are you happy? If not consult Mr Parker Pyne, 17 Richmond Street.”
Mr. Parker Pyne Detective was first published in the UK by William Collins and Sons under the name Parker Pyne Investigates in 1934 and is a short story collection written by the timeless Agatha Christie.
The character Parker Pyne makes his debut in the collection. A retired civil servant, Pyne advertises readers of the 'Personal' column of The Times newspaper with an opportunity to cure unhappiness and christens himself, a 'Detective of the Heart' despite his often dubious approach to solution….
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