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The Regatta Mystery
Diamond merchant, Isaac Pointz, and his guests come ashore at Dartmouth to enjoy the fair after the yacht races. Over dinner, young Eve Leathern bets she can make Pointz’s famous diamond, the Morning Star, disappear right at the table. When the girl does exactly that she discovers she has made the priceless gem disappear more completely than she had intended. Fortunately Parker Pyne is able to get to the bottom of what really happened to the Morning Star.
This story is set in a part of Devon that Christie would come to know extremely well. Although this story was written in the early 1930s it was in 1938 that Agatha Christie bought Greenway House on the banks of the River Dart. This estate, now owned by the National Trust, has extensive views down the river towards Dartmouth. The 17th Century Royal Castle Hotel in Dartmouth may well have been the location that Christie used for the dinner party in this story.
Published in Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (UK) and also in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (US).
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