The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Poirot)

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Agatha Christies first ever murder mystery, now presented as a sumptuous special edition hardback.
Beware! Peril to the detective who says: It is so small it does not matter Everything matters.

After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory.

Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement

The first Hercule Poirot mystery, now published with a previously deleted chapter and introduced by Agatha Christie expert Dr John Curran.

Reviews

Almost too ingenious very clearly and brightly told.
Times Literary Supplement

Very well contrived.
Sunday Times

Altogether a skilful tale and a talented first book.
Daily News

The most ingenious and absorbingly interesting tale of sensations and mystery we have read for a long time.
Bookman

Well written, well proportioned, and full of surprises. Lovers of good stories will, without exception, rejoice in this book.
The British Weekly

Author Bio

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.