{"id":2471,"date":"2026-01-03T22:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-mysterious-mr-quin-christie-agatha\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:31:35","slug":"the-mysterious-mr-quin-christie-agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-mysterious-mr-quin-christie-agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Mr Quin – Christie, Agatha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mr Quin stories were not written as a series. They were written one at a time at rare intervals. Mr Quin, I consider, is an epicure\u2019s taste.<\/p>\n

A set of Dresden figures on my mother\u2019s mantelpiece fascinated me as a child and afterwards. They represented the Italian commedia dell\u2019arte<\/span>: Harlequin, Columbine, Pierrot, Pierette, Punchinello, and Punchinella. As a girl I wrote a series of poems about them, and I rather think that one of the poems, Harlequin\u2019s Song<\/span>, was my first appearance in print. It was in the Poetry Review<\/span>, and I got a guinea for it!<\/p>\n

After I turned from poetry and ghost stories to crime, Harlequin finally reappeared; a figure invisible except when he chose, not quite human, yet concerned with the affairs of human beings and particularly of lovers. He is also the advocate for the dead.<\/p>\n

Though each story about him is quite separate, yet the collection, written over a considerable period of years, outlines in the end of the story of Harlequin himself.<\/p>\n

With Mr Quin there has been created little Mr Satterthwaite, Mr Quin\u2019s friend in this mortal world: Mr Satterthwaite, the gossip, the looker-on at life, the little man who without ever touching the depths of joy and sorrow himself, recognizes drama when he sees it, and is conscious that he has a part to play.<\/p>\n

Of the Mr Quin stories, my favourite are: World\u2019s End, The Man from the Sea<\/span>, and Harlequin\u2019s Lane<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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