title: The Complete Quin and Satterthwaite : Love Detectives
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: A brand new omnibus featuring Agatha Christie's favourite characters: Messrs Quin and Satterthwaite. Harley Quin is an enigma. He appears and disappears unexpectedly -- and usually by strange tricks of the light caused by stained-glass windows or flickering firelight. His background, family and friends are all a mystery -- his almost supernatural powers of detection are, however, very real. Mr Satterthwaite is altogether more normal -- fundamentally a snob, he lives the carefree lifestyle of a bachelor whilst indulging his hobbies. Yet, beneath this facade is a deep vein of loneliness that compels him to observe everyone and everything. Together they are an unstoppable, crime-fighting tour de force -- Sattherthwaite's skills of observation are honed by Quin's subtle questioning, bringing to light the most pertinent clues in any crime. With each acting as a catalyst for the other, the criminal fraternity had best beware! This volume brings all the Quin and Satterthwaite novels and short stories together for the first time, and showcases the pair's talents in a way that clearly explains why Agatha Christie herself was so fond of her creations: 'The Love Detectives'. Contains: The Mysterious Mr Quin Three-Act Tragedy Dead Man's Mirror The Love Detectives The Harlequin Tea Set
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  Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr. Quin  CHAPTER ONE  THE COMING OF MR. QUIN  IT was New
  Year's Eve.  The elder members of the house party at Royston were assembled in the big hall.  Mr.
  Satterthwaite was glad that the young
  people had gone to bed. He was not fond of young people in herds. He thought them uninteresting
  and crude. They lacked subtlety and as life went he had
  become increasingly fond of subtleties  Mr. Satterthwaite was sixty-two-- a little bent, dried-up man
  with a peering face oddly elflike, and an intense
  and inordinate interest in other people's lives. All his life, so to speak, he had sat in the front row of
  the stalls watching various dramas of human nature unfold before him. His role had always been that
  of the onlooker. Only now, with old age holding him in its clutch, he found himself increasingly critical
  of the drama submitted to him. He demanded now something a little out of the common.  There was
  no doubt that