The Mysterious Affair at Styles
By: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780007527496
Copyright date: 1920
Subjects: Private investigators; Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
Description: CRIME & MYSTERY. With impeccable timing Hercule Poirot, the renowned Belgian detective, makes his dramatic entrance on to the English crime stage. Recently, there had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn, constant companion to old Mrs Inglethorp, had stormed out of the house muttering something about 'a lot of sharks'. And with her, something indefinable had gone from the atmosphere. Her presence had spelt security; now the air seemed rife with suspicion and impending evil. A shattered coffee cup, a splash of candle grease, a bed of begonias. all Poirot required to display his now legendary powers of detection.
Notes: "The first Hercule Poirot mystery" -- Cover.

"Includes original unpublished ending" -- Cover.