Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Case of the Discontented Soldier - a Parker Pyne Short Story

Agatha Christie

3.49/5 (500 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

When civilian life proves too dull for Major Wilbraham, he contacts Parker Pyne to escape his boredom. He's just returned from East Africa and the colonial service, and has trouble dealing with petty little village matters in England. Pyne has an idea and sets up a chance meeting for him with the beautiful Freda Clegg. And he throws in a little excitement too. Did they get more than they bargained for? What's the outcome of his contacting Parker Pyne?

Librarian's note: this entry relates to the short story, "The Case of the Discontented Soldier." Collections and the other stories by the author are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The Parker Pyne series includes 14 short stories. Entries for the stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Parker Pyne Short Story."

Librarian's note #2: the story was published in the print anthologies, "Parker Pyne Investigates" and 'Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective." It first came out in "Cosmopolitan" magazine in 1932.

Format:: Audio

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2012

Publisher:: HarperAudio

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 0062248928

ISBN13:: 9780062248923

kindle Asin:

The Case of the Discontented Soldier - a Parker Pyne Short Story

Agatha Christie

3.49/5 (500 ratings)

Read Download

When civilian life proves too dull for Major Wilbraham, he contacts Parker Pyne to escape his boredom. He's just returned from East Africa and the colonial service, and has trouble dealing with petty little village matters in England. Pyne has an idea and sets up a chance meeting for him with the beautiful Freda Clegg. And he throws in a little excitement too. Did they get more than they bargained for? What's the outcome of his contacting Parker Pyne?

Librarian's note: this entry relates to the short story, "The Case of the Discontented Soldier." Collections and the other stories by the author are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The Parker Pyne series includes 14 short stories. Entries for the stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Parker Pyne Short Story."

Librarian's note #2: the story was published in the print anthologies, "Parker Pyne Investigates" and 'Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective." It first came out in "Cosmopolitan" magazine in 1932.

Format:: Audio

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2012

Publisher:: HarperAudio

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 0062248928

ISBN13:: 9780062248923

kindle Asin:

More Books

Educated (Hardcover)

Tara Westover

1984 (Paperback)

George Orwell

The Alchemist (Paperback)

Paulo Coelho

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

Suzanne Collins

The Secret History (Paperback)

Donna Tartt

Never Let Me Go (Paperback)

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Song of Achilles (Paperback)

Madeline Miller

Brave New World (Paperback)

Aldous Huxley

Crime and Punishment (Paperback)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Art of War (Paperback)

Sun Tzu

The Great Gatsby (Paperback)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Circe (Hardcover)

Madeline Miller