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Foreword
The Mr Quin stories were not written as a series. They were written one at a time at rare intervals. Mr Quin, I consider, is an epicure's taste.
A set of Dresden figures on my mother's mantelpiece fascinated me as a child and afterwards. They represented the Italian commedia delVarte: Harlequin, Columbine, Pierrot, Pierette, Punchinello, and Punchinella. As a girl I wrote a series of poems about them, and I rather think that one of the poems. Harlequin's Song, was my first appearance in print. It was in the Poetry Review, and I got a guinea for it!
After I mrned from poetry and ghost stories to crime, Harlequin finally reappeared; a figure invisible except when he chose, not quite human, yet concerned with the affairs of human beings and particularly of lovers. He is also the advocate for the dead.
Though each story about him is quite separate, yet