The Regatta Mystery by Agatha Christie

This collection of short stories has stories featuring Parker Pyne, Miss Marple, and Hercule Poirot. While it's always a pleasure to read Christie's crisp style, her novels are generally much better than her short stories. In the novels, the reader has a chance of following the clues she drops to solve the mystery before the detective; most of these stories were neat examples of the detective's skill without a chance for the reader to actively participate. "Through a Glass Darkly," my least favorite of the nine stories, had entirely new characters and was more of a supernatural love story than standard mystery. Overall, this collection should entertain Christie's fans, but would not be a good place to start.