The Mysterious Mr Quin (by Agatha Christie)

We have quite a collection of Agatha Christie books, most of them picked up inexpensively from second-hand shops. Ive read the majority, but not all of them. One of the ones I had not previously read is The Mysterious Mr Quin.

I realised quickly that instead of being a full novel, this book is a collection of twelve short stories. The author mentions in the foreword that they were not written as a series; instead she wrote them as one-off stories, over quite a long period. What they have in...