Agatha Christie: Mr. Parker Pyne (French language, 1970, Champs-Elysees)
French language
Published Aug. 6, 1970 by Champs-Elysees.
A collection of short stories featuring the ‘heart specialist’, Parker Pyne.
Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: ‘ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE’.
Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the world’s most unconventional private eye – and certainly its most charming.
The first time I read this book I must have been 12 or 13 years old. It was the Spanish translation, and I loved it.
Yesterday I finished my second reading, 40 years later, and it is still a good book, but all the "marital advise" is just too misogynistic for my taste. I know, I know... What did I expected from a book first published in 1934? Still, it should come with am introductory note about it
