Agatha Christie Short Stories 2024: NOVEMBER #AgathaChristieSS24

The last month but one of this year, and I have been pondering whether to continue this Agatha Christie Short Stories challenge for 2025 or not. I decided to do it again next year! Right now I am curating the twenty four titles we'll be reading, and will probably make the formal announcement around next month or early December. In the meantime, here are the two stories we will read in November:

THE DEAD HARLEQUIN

Mr Satterthwaite stumbles across a painting depicting a Harlequin, with his friend Mr Quin, standing in the scene where a man shot himself fourteen years earlier. Mr Quin observes the events from both the picture and the present. Is this event a coincident? We know the answer....

The story was first published in book form in the collection of The Mysterious Mr Quin, published by Collins in 1930.

THE GIRL IN THE TRAIN

A young man, who just fired from the family firm, jumps on a train. As with many an Agatha Christie story, a train is never merely about the destination, the real interest lies in the passengers. The young man meets a girl who is being chased by a mysterious bearded man.

The story appeared in the UK collection The Listerdale Mystery in 1934, and was later published in the US in The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1971).


I'm really excited to read the second one, what about you? Actually, I've had enough with Mr. Quin and Mr. Satterthwaite, that I decided to not included their stories for next year!