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The Harlequin Tea Set [short story] (1971)

by Agatha Christie

Series: Harley Quin (short story)

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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. 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, it all comes to make complete sense.… (more)
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What the heck? The Harley Quinn stories are hardly standard mysteries, but this one seems to pretty clearly invoke magic to solve the problem, and not in a particularly coherent or interesting way. ( )
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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. 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, it all comes to make complete sense.

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Mr. Satterthwaite is driving to visit his old friend Tom Addison at his home, Doverton Kingsbourne. His car breaks down in the nearest village, and, leaving his chauffeur to deal with it, he wanders into a cafe, where he meets, by no coincidence, his friend Harley Quin. Both men journey to Doverton Kingsbourne for tea, and Satterthwaite knows that he must somehow solve a mystery endangering the family.?

In: Agatha Christie, The Harlequin Tea Set and other stories (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997) pp. 237-281. (various reprintings)<

-----Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
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