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    The Pearl of Price: A Parker Pyne Story
    The Pearl of Price: A Parker Pyne Story
    The Pearl of Price: A Parker Pyne Story
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    The Pearl of Price: A Parker Pyne Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.

    A party of tourists is traveling from Amman to a camp in Petra. The group includes an American magnate and his daughter Carol. When Carol loses one of her earrings, Jim Hurst, an ex-convict, becomes a prime suspect. But is he really guilty, and can Parker Pyne shed light on the theft?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 29, 2013
    ISBN9780062302656
    The Pearl of Price: 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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      The Pearl of Price - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      The Pearl of Price

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      THE PEARL OF PRICE

      The party had had a long and tiring day. They had started from Amman early in the morning with a temperature of ninety-eight in the shade, and had come at last just as it was growing dark into the camp situated in the heart of that city of fantastic and preposterous red rock which is Petra.

      There were seven of them, Mr. Caleb P. Blundell, that stout and prosperous American magnate. His dark and good-looking, if somewhat taciturn, secretary, Jim Hurst. Sir Donald Marvel, M.P., a tired-looking English politician. Doctor Carver, a world-renowned elderly archaeologist. A gallant Frenchman, Colonel Dubosc, on leave from Syria. A Mr. Parker Pyne, not perhaps so plainly labelled with his profession, but breathing an atmosphere of British solidity. And lastly, there was Miss Carol Blundell—pretty, spoiled, and extremely sure of herself as the only woman among half a dozen men.

      They dined in the big tent, having selected their tents or caves for sleeping in. They talked of politics in the Near East—the Englishman cautiously, the Frenchman discreetly, the American somewhat fatuously, and the archaeologist and Mr. Parker Pyne not

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