Parker Pyne is engaged in an unusual business – he arranges personal happiness for people: he restores family relationships, helps find a life partner, and tries to restore the taste of life to those disillusioned with it. At the same time, he organizes real performances based on scripts created by the writer Ariadne Oliver, well known to Agatha Christie readers. But often, human adversity and misfortune are accompanied by crime – or lead to it. And this is the other side of Parker Pyne's work…

In this collection of stories, fans of Lady Agatha will also meet another popular character – Poirot's future secretary, Miss Lemon.