The Case of the Discontented Husband: A Parker Pyne Story
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Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates.
Reginald Wade goes to Parker Pyne when he learns that his wife has decided to leave him for another man. Reggie’s only hope is that his wife has declared a six-month grace period. If she still feels the same at the end, she wants a divorce. Pyne decides that dark, glamorous Madeline de Sara is just what Reggie needs to console him—but will Mrs. Wade think this is such a good idea?
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
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The Case of the Discontented Husband
About the Author
The Agatha Christie Collection
Copyright
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THE CASE OF THE DISCONTENTED HUSBAND
Undoubtedly one of Mr. Parker Pyne’s greatest assets was his sympathetic manner. It was a manner that invited confidence. He was well acquainted with the kind of paralysis that descended on clients as soon as they got inside his office. It was Mr. Pyne’s task to pave the way for the necessary disclosures.
On this particular morning he sat facing a new client, a Mr. Reginald Wade. Mr. Wade, he deduced at once, was the inarticulate type. The type that finds it hard to put into words anything connected with the emotions.
He was a tall, broadly-built man with mild, pleasant blue eyes and a well-tanned complexion. He sat pulling absentmindedly at a little moustache while he looked at Mr. Parker Pyne with all the pathos of a dumb animal.
Saw your advertisement, you know,
he jerked. Thought I might as well come along. Rum sort of show, but you never know, what?
Mr. Parker Pyne interpreted these cryptic remarks correctly. When things go badly, one is willing to take a chance,
he suggested.
"That’s it. That’s it, exactly. I’m willing to take a chance—any chance. Things are