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I weren't trying to read everything by Agatha Christie, I would have missed Mr, Harley Quin. So different than Christie Poirot and Marple books, Christie mixes mystery and near fantasy with the mysterious Mr, Quin and the elderly Mr, Satterthwaite. Quin shows up suddenly at key moments intervening on behalf of lovers and the dead utilizing the observant Mr.
Satterthwaite in this process. Quin grew on me as I read through this book, The stories become progressively more fanciful and supernatural, The last two stories "The World's End" and "Harlequin's Lane" are darker and Mr, Quin appears more sinister than positive,

The Coming of Mr Quin
The Shadow on the Glass
At the "Bells and Motley"
The Sign in the Sky
The Soul of the Croupier
The Man from the Sea
The Voice in the Dark
The Face of Helen
The Dead Harlequin
The Bird with the Broken Wing
The World's End
Harlequin's Lane .


"Sentiment beloonged to his age, It had no part to play in the modern world, "

This is a Christie that is totally different from the one you and I know, or knew, or thought we knew.
Even in her mostknown and appreciated works, she always flirts with the supernatural and the mysterious, but, this time around, flirting isn't enough for her anymore: this time, she abandons herself to it and yet without giving the impression of fully doing it.


It's a mystery in itself, how she did it, the main and the most dense of the whole collection.
Not once does the reader feel mocked or wronged because of the peculiar air the arcane presence of Mr.
Harley Quin bestows on these stories, which is, to me, another marvellous paradox, being they crime stories and Christie's at that.
Agatha Christie, mother of the rational, precise, objective, infallible Hercule Poirot, and now she gives birth to this ghost, this wraith, this shadow of a man who appears, magically, whenever and wherever a new tragedy is about to happen or an old one needs to be put to sleep.
I would have dismissed without a second thought any crime novel presenting such a premise, and I would have wronged myself terribly.
I already knew I would find it brilliant it's Christie we're talking about, after all, but I wasn't prepared to love its peculiarity and strangeness to the point of not being able to think of anything or little else for days afterwards.
Mr. Quin is unjustly underestimated, if you ask me, I, for once, have found him to be extremely more remarkable and intriguing that the infamous Miss Marple ever was but, banally, not as much as my Poirot is.


Not all of the stories of this collection are exceptional, but almost, One or two may result unusually lame by Chritie's standard, which is to say good nonetheless, but I can promise the others won't disappoint.
If Agatha were still alive, I would start a petition to have more Quin's stories, Twelve are far too few, Este es un entretenido libro que se compone derelatos en los cuales su nexo de unión es el señor Sattherwaite, en los cuales pasa de ser un mero espectador a tener la clave para resolver dramas humanos, los relatos que más me han gustado han sido:
La llegada de Mr.
Quin
La sombra en el cristal
El cadáver de Arlequín
El pájaro con el ala rota
El sendero de Arlequín According to me, this is one of the underrated

gems of Agatha Christie, where she flirts with fantasy.
Even though none of the stories except the last one Harlequin's Lane cross over into fantasy territory, they are always on the borderline.
That Christie does this without straining our credibility speaks volumes for her mastery of the medium,

Mr. Harley Quin is a thinly disguised Harlequin, transported into modern England, His specialty: he allows one to solve mysteries by stripping away the unnecessary details, He does this by asking one to imagine that the events happened in the remote past, to strangers: this removes the personal element from the equation and allows one to see clearer.
Mr. Satterthwaite, an elderly bachelor who is interested in human beings and their affairs, is the usual beneficiary of Quin's method.


Most of the mysteries in the volume are dark and brooding, The first story, The Coming of Mr, Quin, sets the tone for the whole book when Quin appears at the doorstep of the country house where Mr.
Satterthwaite happens to be spending his New Year's Eve, as the first visitor of the year, As he steps across the threshold, a queer trick of the light appears to give the impression that the visitor is dressed in motley and is wearing a mask.
Then Quin sets out to make his presence felt by enabling the houseguests to solve the mystery of a suicide that happened in that house a year ago! In the process, he helps two lovers reunite.


This is Quin's trademark love, . . and violent death. As Satterthwaite says, his friend seem to be interested in the welfare of lovers more than solving crimes.
But in a Christie story, they often go hand in hand,

This book is a personal favourite of mine, read over and over countless number of times especially on wet June nights, in the cavernous rooms of my ancestral home in Kerala, as the monsoon rages outside.
I half expect Quin to step over the threshold every time, saying: "Damnable weather outside, Can I wait inside till it clears" An Agatha Christie novel starring Harley Quinn!



No.
Calm down, nerd.
But it does feature a character named Harley Quin, who helps our main character, Mr.
Satterthwaite, solve a series of old mysteries that somehow relate to whatever situation our elderly hero finds himself in at the moment.
ltat a house party, trip abroad, etc,



But in case you're thinking whothefuckcares if the name isn't Poirot or Marple, there's a paranormal TWIST to this one that I've never seen before in any of Christie's writing that makes this a worthwhile read for any fan.




Ok, and since I can't be the only person who didn't really know what the hell a harlequin was:
harlequin
/ˈhärləkwən/
noun
.

a mute character in traditional pantomime, typically masked and dressed in a diamondpatterned costume,
Similar: jester, joker, merry andrew, droll, zany
So, . . like some sort of an even weirder mime or something



Anyway, if nothing else, I now have one more useless piece of information floating around in my head.
And maybe, so do you!



In all seriousness, if you're looking for something kind of different in an Agatha Christie story, then this just might fit the bill.


Below are links to reviews of each individual story in this collection for anyone who is interested.


sitelinkThe Coming of Mr, Quin
sitelinkThe Shadow on the Glass
sitelinkAt the "Bells and Motley"
sitelinkThe Sign in the Sky
sitelinkThe Soul of the Croupier
sitelinkThe Man from the Sea
sitelinkThe Voice in the Dark
sitelinkThe Face of Helen
sitelinkThe Dead Harlequin
sitelinkThe Bird with the Broken Wing
sitelinkThe World's End
sitelinkHarlequin's Lane.