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    Have You Got Everything You Want?: A Parker Pyne Story
    Have You Got Everything You Want?: A Parker Pyne Story
    Have You Got Everything You Want?: A Parker Pyne Story
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    Have You Got Everything You Want?: A Parker Pyne Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.

    Elsie Jeffries, married for eighteen months to successful businessman Edward Jeffries, meets Parker Pyne by chance on the Simplon-Orient Express. She has seen Pyne’s advertisements and feels he may be able to help her. She tells Pyne she has seen a fragment of a letter left on Edward’s blotting pad, which points to some sort of plot against her, to be carried out while she is on the train to Stamboul ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 22, 2013
    ISBN9780062302595
    Have You Got Everything You Want?: A Parker Pyne Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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      Have You Got Everything You Want? - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      Have You Got Everything You Want?

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      HAVE YOU GOT EVERYTHING YOU WANT?

      Par ici, madame."

      A tall woman in a mink coat followed her heavily encumbered porter along the platform of the Gare de Lyon.

      She wore a dark-brown knitted hat pulled down over one eye and ear. The other side revealed a charming tip-tilted profile and little golden curls clustering over a shell-like ear. Typically an American, she was altogether a very charming-looking creature and more than one man turned to look at her as she walked past the high carriages of the waiting train.

      Large plates were stuck in holders on the sides of the carriages.

      PARIS-ATHENES. PARIS-BUCHAREST. PARIS-STAMBOUL.

      At the last named the porter came to an abrupt halt. He undid the strap which held the suitcases together and they slipped heavily to the ground. Voici, madame.

      The wagon-lit conductor was standing beside the steps. He came forward, remarking, Bonsoir, madame, with an empressement perhaps due to the richness and perfection of the mink coat.

      The woman handed him her sleeping car ticket of flimsy paper.

      Number Six, he said. This way.

      He sprang nimbly into the train, the woman following him. As she hurried down the corridor after him, she nearly collided with a portly gentleman who was emerging

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