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Agatha Christie, a well-known English crime novelist, was not only a frequent visitor of Istanbul, but she also used it as a setting in her work. “Have You Got Everything You Want?” (1934) from her short story collection entitled Parker Pyne Investigates is one of her narratives mentioning Istanbul. Even though Christie did not focus on Istanbul in her text, its translator can be said to have rewritten it, creating a different meaning for the city in the translation entitled İstanbul Yolunda Bir Macera published as a free supplement to Hareket Newspaper in 1963. “Segmentation of the text” and “evaluation of the proper names in the text”, which are two of the operations of analysis used in the studies of the Paris School of Semiotics and compiled by Sündüz Öztürk Kasar within the framework of her approach to semiotics of translation (Öztürk Kasar, 2009), are used as the analysis steps in this study. In order to evaluate the translation, “Systematics of Designificative Tendencies” (Öztürk Kasar & Tuna, 2017, p. 172) propounded by Sündüz Öztürk Kasar is used. The “over-interpreted” (Öztürk Kasar & Tuna, 2017, p. 172) signs and discourses can be said to reflect Istanbul’s Turkish and Islamic identity, and the translation seems to have been influenced by nationalist sentiments. This translation of the city leads us to consider the translator’s visibility in this text, believing that the invisibility of the translator (Venuti, 1995) is also related to the reading activity. This study suggests that translation of crime fiction in Turkey needs further research especially to help visibility of crime fiction translators.