The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
By: Agatha Christie
This was Agatha Christie’s first published novel and the first mystery to feature the meticulous and fastidious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, as well as his friend Lieutenant Arthur Hastings and Scotland Yard’s Inspector Japp. The matriarch and heir of Styles Court is poisoned to death. At first everyone suspects her new husband, with whom she appeared to have an argument the day before her death, when she also considered changing her will. But when Hastings’ friend Poirot joins the investigation the number of suspects expands and the mystery deepens.
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This was Agatha Christie’s first published novel and the first mystery to feature the meticulous and fastidious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, as well as his friend Lieutenant Arthur Hastings and Scotland Yard’s Inspector Japp. The matriarch and heir of Styles Court is poisoned to death. At first everyone suspects her new husband, with whom she appeared to have an argument the day before her death, when she also considered changing her will. But when Hastings’ friend Poirot joins the investigation the number of suspects expands and the mystery deepens.