Table Of Content"I didn't want to appear vain," Miss Marple said,
"but I couldn't help being just a teeny weeny bit
pleased with myself, because, just by applying a
little common sense, I believe I really did solve
a problem that had baffled cleverer heads than
mine. Though really I should have thought the
whole thing was obvious from the beginning...
"A woman had been stabbed in her hotel room
and her husband was under suspicion. But the
situation boiled down to this--no one but the hus-band
and the chambermaid had entered the vic-tim's
room.
"I inquired about the chambermaid..."
"The champion deceiver of our time."
--NEW YORK TIMES
Berkley books by Agatha Christie
APPOINTMENT wITH DEATH
THE BIG FOUR
THE BOOMERANG CLUE
CARDS ON THE TABLE
DEAD MAN'S MIRROR
DEATH IN THE AIR
DOUBLE SIN AND OTHER STORIES
ELEPHANTS CAN REMEMBER
THE GOLDEN BALL AND OTHER STORIES
THE HOLLOW
THE LABORS OF HERCULES
THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT
MISS MARPLE: THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES
MR. PARKER PYNE, DETECTIVE
THE MOVING FINGER
THE MURDER AT HAZELMOOR
THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE
MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA
MURDER IN RETROSPECT
MURDER IN THREE ACTS
THE MURDER ON THE LINKS
THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUIN
N OR M?
PARTNERS IN CRIME
THE PATRIOTIC MURDERS
POtROT LOSES A CLIENT
THE REGATTA MYSTERY AND OTHER STORIES
SAD CYPRESS
THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS
THERE 1S A TIDE...
THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD
THIRTEEN AT DINNER
THREE BLIND MICE AND OTHER STORIES
THE TUESDAY CLUB MURDERS
THE UNDER DOG AND OTHER STORIES
THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION AND OTHER STORIES
AGATHA
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THE REGATTA MYSW
and Other Stories
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The Regatta Myster
The Mystery of the
How Does Your GoI'!
Problem at Pollensa!
Yellow Iris
Miss Marple Tells
The Dream
In a Glass Darkly
Problem at Sea
Mr. Isaac Pointz removed a cigar from his lips and
said approvingly:
"Pretty little place."
Having thus set the seal of his approval upon
Dartmouth harbor, he .replaced the cigar and
looked about him with the air of a man pleased
with himself, his appearance, his surroundings
and life generally.
As regards the first of these, Mr. Isaac Pointz
was a man of fifty-eight, in good health and con-dition
with perhaps a slight tendency to liver. He
was not exactly stout, but comfortable-looking,
and a yachting costume, which he wore at the mo-ment,
is not the most kindly of attires far a
middle-aged man with a tendency to embonpoint.
Mr. Pointz was very well turned outmcorrect to
every crease and button--his dark and slightly
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Oriental face beaming out under the peak of his
yachting cap. As regards his surroundings, these
may have been taken to mean his companions--his
partner Mr. Leo Stein, Sir George and Lady
Maroway, an American business acquaintance
Mr. Samuel Leathern and his schoolgirl daughter
Eve, Mrs. Rustington and Evan Llewellyn.
The party had just come ashore from Mr.
Pointz' yacht--the Merrirnaid. In the morning
they had watched the yacht racing and they had
now come ashore to join for a while in the fun of
the fair--Coconut shies, Fat Ladies, the Human
Spider and the Merry-go-round. It is hardly to be
doubted that these delights were relished most by
Eve Leathern. When Mr. Pointz finally suggested
that it was time to adjourn to the Royal George
for dinner hers was the only dissentient voice.
"Oh, Mr. Pointz--I did so want to have my fortune
told by the Real Gypsy in the Caravan."
Mr. Pointz had doubts of the essential Realness
of the Gypsy in question but he gave indulgent assent.
"Eve's just crazy about the fair," said her
father apologetically. "But don't you pay any attention
if you want to be getting along."
"Plenty of time," said Mr. Pointz benignantly.
"Let the little lady enjoy herself. I'll take you on
at darts, Leo."
"Twenty-five and over wins a prize," chanted
the man in charge of the darts in a high nasal
voice.
"Bet you a river my total score beats yours,"
said Pointz.
"Done," said Stein with alacrity.
THE REGATTA MYSTERY
The two men were soon whole-heartedly engaged
in their battle.
Lady Marroway murmured to Evan Llewellyn:
"Eve is not the only child in the party."
Llewellyn smiled assent but somewhat absently.
He had been absent-minded all that day. Once
or twice his answers had been wide of the point.
Pamela Marroway drew away from him and
said to her husband:
"That young man has something on his mind."
Sir George murmured:
"Or someone?"
