Have You Got Everything You Want?

Elsie Jeffries, married for eighteen months to successful businessman Edward Jeffries, meets Parker Pyne by chance on the Simplon-Orient Express. She has seen Pyne’s ‘Are You Happy?’ advertisements and feels he may be able to help her. She tells Pyne she has seen a fragment of a letter left on Edward’s blotting pad, which points to some sort of plot against her, to be carried out while she is on the train to Stamboul… She’s worried and asks if there’s something Mr. Pyne can do. Librarian’s note: this entry relates to the short story, ‘Have You Got Everything You Want?’ 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 appeared in ‘Cosmopolitan’ magazine in 1933. Librarian’s note #3: there’s an alternate name for the story, ‘Express to Stamboul.’