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    The Oracle at Delphi: A Parker Pyne Story
    The Oracle at Delphi: A Parker Pyne Story
    The Oracle at Delphi: A Parker Pyne Story
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    The Oracle at Delphi: A Parker Pyne Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.

    Parker Pyne is traveling incognito under the name of Mr. Thompson. In Delphi, he learns that someone calling himself Parker Pyne is being consulted by Mrs. Peters, who refers to him as "the good gentleman." But who is this imposter, and what does he want with Mrs. Peters?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 29, 2013
    ISBN9780062302694
    The Oracle at Delphi: 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 Oracle at Delphi - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      The Oracle at Delphi

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      THE ORACLE AT DELPHI

      Mrs. Willard J. Peters did not really care for Greece. And of Delphi she had, in her secret heart, no opinion at all.

      Mrs. Peters’ spiritual homes were in Paris, London and the Riviera. She was a woman who enjoyed hotel life, but her idea of a hotel bedroom was a soft-pile carpet, a luxurious bed, a profusion of different arrangements of electric light, including a shaded bedside lamp, plenty of hot and cold water and a telephone beside the bed, by means of which you could order tea, meals, mineral waters, cocktails and speak to your friends.

      In the hotel at Delphi there were none of these things. There was a marvellous view from the windows, the bed was clean and so was the whitewashed room. There was a chair, a washstand and a chest of drawers. Baths took place by arrangement and were occasionally disappointing as regarded hot water.

      It would, she supposed, be nice to say that you had been to Delphi, and Mrs. Peters had tried hard to take an interest in Ancient Greece, but she found it difficult. Their statuary seemed so unfinished; so lacking

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