Detectives
Harley Quin
Harley Quin is a mystery. He appears and disappears unexpectedly and by strange tricks of light and reflections; making his clothes seem brightly multicolored like the theatrical Harlequin.
Published in various magazines through the 1920s, the short stories were collected and published for the first time in The Mysterious Mr Quin in 1930 and in two other short stories: The Love Detectives and The Harlequin Tea Set.
Harley Quin helps his old friend Mr Satterthwaite to solve crimes through carefully worded but apparently random observations and questions that provide insight into a problem. Mr Harley Quin is there to act as a catalyst, to reveal to Mr Satterthwaite what he already knows.
In her Autobiography, Agatha Christie listed the Harley Quin stories as her favorites and describes Harley Quin as "a friend of lovers and connected with death". The collection is dedicated by the author "To Harlequin the invisible" which makes it unique as no other Christie book is dedicated to a character.
Sometimes appears with:
Harley Quin Stories
- At the Bells and Motley
- Harlequin's Lane
- Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
- Shadow on the Glass
- The Bird with the Broken Wing
- The Coming of Mr Quin
- The Dead Harlequin
- The Face of Helen
- The Harlequin Tea Set
- The Love Detectives
- The Man from the Sea
- The Mysterious Mr Quin
- The Sign in the Sky
- The Soul of the Croupier
- The Voice in the Dark
- The World's End