In 2006, I purchased The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories and have read it a couple of time now.

Agatha Christie, the author of The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories, which is a collection of short stories, features famed characters, including Mr. Parker Pyne, Miss Marple, and Hercule Poirot. The stories, with around 25 pages each, are short enough to read in one sitting and would not make you put the book down until you’re done with an entire story. If you like stories with plot and character development, I recommend her collection of short stories. However if you don’t get satisfaction from reading short detective stories, I prefer her full length novels.

For me, reading short stories found in the book entitled “In a Glass Darkly” made me interested because most of them are not like the famous detective stories written by Christie and it is obvious that the storyteller is a male but no name is indicated. While the story of The Regatta Mystery is all about the case to be solved by Parker Pyne which is the diamond theft mystery, the story I mentioned is almost a romantic story and that’s the reason why it is one of my favorites.

Pollensa Bay for me is the most interesting story in the collection and is about a mother who does not like her son’s choice of partner, and with the help of a detective the situation is cleared up. I felt that some films I’ve seen years ago have been influenced by this story.

Another story that I can say that is very gratifying to read was the Yellow Iris, which was modified later into a full-length novel by Agatha Christie, entitled Sparkling Cyanide.

Another is the story “In The Dream” that is about an exceptional millionaire that was seen dead within a week when he told Poirot that he keeps dreaming about killing himself. Therefore, the problem would be on how to solve the crime?

Why was this collection of stories not published in the UK until decades later in this format while it was published in the USA in the year 1939? It appeared that most of the stories in the book were in the other short story collections, but prior to the year 1960, none of these were present in UK. And in the year 2000, Penguin in the UK published this collection of stories. I purchased the book in 2006 from the Amazon UK and wondered why it was not present before. Other than that, I am rating The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories as 4 out of 5 and definitely, I will be reading it again in the next years and it will be permanently in my book collection.

Another is the Horrible Histories which is a series of children books intended for the aged seven to twelve and was published by Scholastics in the UK and has sold over ten million copies in UK alone, and has been translated into thirty- seven languages worldwide. To the children, they will be filled with laughter while information will fill their brain with knowledge. In the year 1993, the first books also published by Scholastics UK were The Awesome Egyptians and The Terrible Tudors.  Additional information about this matter are discussed in List of publishing companies.