The Harlequin Tea Set is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...

 and first published in the US by G. P. Putnam's Sons

G. P. Putnam's Sons

G. P. Putnam's Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since 1996, it has been an imprint of the Penguin Group.-History:...

 on April 14, 1997

1997 in literature

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. It contains nine short stories each of which involves a separate mystery. Some of the stories in the collection have appeared in other short story collections.

The collection of nine stories include:

• "The Edge"
• "The Actress"
• "While the Light Lasts"
• "The House of Dreams"
• "The Lonely God"
• "Manx Gold"
• "Within a Wall"
• "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest" (a Hercule Poirot
  Hercule Poirot
  Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.Poirot has been portrayed on...
  
  story)
• "The Harlequin Tea Set" (a Harley Quin story)

Publication history

• 1991, Putnam, April 14, 1997, Hardcover, 281 pp ISBN 0-39-914287-8
• 1998, Berkley Books, Paperback ISBN 0-42-516515-9

External links

• The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories at the official Agatha Christie website