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The Mysterious Affair at Styles - (Chiltern Classic) by Agatha Christie (Hardcover)
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- Author(s): Agatha Christie
- 255 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective
- Series Name: Chiltern Classic
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written by Agatha Christie in 1920, is the first of her novels to feature Hercule Poirot. The small, fastidious Belgian is one of her most iconic characters and among the most famous fictional detectives in the world.
The story features many of the elements that have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, largely due to Christie's influence. It is set in a large, isolated country manor. There are a half-dozen suspects, most of whom are hiding facts about themselves.
Review Quotes
'In general, in Christie's books, "home" is not a warm, nurturing place, and her mansions -- often isolated, moldering and gloomy -- make ideal spots for murder, like the one in her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. When the book opens, Hercule Poirot is living in somewhat straitened circumstances as a Great War refugee in the English countryside, not far from the estate of his benefactress, Emily Inglethorp, who is soon done in by a cup of strychnine-laced cocoa. (The Pharmaceutical Journal, which reviewed "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," said it "has the rare merit of being correctly written.")' - Tina Jordan, The New York Times