The Regatta Mystery

by Agatha Christie

Series: Parker Pyne (2)

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Previously published in the print anthology The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories. Diamond merchant Isaac Pointz and his guests come ashore at Dartmouth to enjoy the fair after the yacht races. Over dinner, young Eve Leathern bets she can make Pointz's famous diamond, the Morning Star, disappear right at the table. When the girl does exactly that, she discovers she has made the priceless gem disappear more completely than she had intended. Fortunately, Parker Pyne is able to get to the bottom of what really happened to the Morning Star.… (more)

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Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

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Poirot and the Regatta Mystery by Agatha Christie

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The Regatta Mystery [short story]

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1936-05-03

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Christopher Parker Pyne

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Mr. Isaac Pointz removed his cigar from his lips and said approvingly:

"Pretty little place."

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Short story; do not combine with the anthology The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories.

"The original version of "The Regatta Mystery" featured Hercule Poirot. The story was later rewritten by Christie to change the detective from Poirot to Parker Pyne for book publication. The original Poirot version surfaced again in 2008 as part of the three-volume Harper collection, Agatha Christie: The Complete Short Stories - Masterpieces in Miniature. (The story appears as the postscript to the Poirot volume.)" Wikipedia page

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Previously published in the print anthology The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories. Diamond merchant Isaac Pointz and his guests come ashore at Dartmouth to enjoy the fair after the yacht races. Over dinner, young Eve Leathern bets she can make Pointz's famous diamond, the Morning Star, disappear right at the table. When the girl does exactly that, she discovers she has made the priceless gem disappear more completely than she had intended. Fortunately, Parker Pyne is able to get to the bottom of what really happened to the Morning Star.

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A group of people who have met up at a regatta enjoy convivial meals together. One of them displays a valuable diamond. A young woman bets that she can steal the diamond and hide it so well that no-one can find it. She succeeds all too well.

"The original version of "The Regatta Mystery" featured Hercule Poirot. The story was later rewritten by Christie to change the detective from Poirot to Parker Pyne for book publication and all collections in both the US and UK contain the Pyne version of the story. The original Poirot version appeared in the May 3, 1936 edition of the Hartford Courant newspaper with an uncredited illustration. It surfaced again in 2008 as part of the three-volume Harper collection, Agatha Christie: The Complete Short Stories - Masterpieces in Miniature. (The story appears as the postscript to the Poirot volume.)" Wikipedia page

In: Agatha Christie, 13 for Luck! (New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.) pp. 175-193.

-----The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (New York : Berkeley Books, 1984), pp. 1-25.

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

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