The mysterious affair at Styles
Subtitle: a detective story
By: Agatha Christie ; introduction by Elizabeth George.
Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed.
Series: The Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction; Belgians -- England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Agatha Christie's first novel, introduces the characters of Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Arthur Hastings. In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his technique to prove who really killed Emily.
Notes: "The 1st Hercule Poirot mystery" --cover.