The mysterious affair at Styles
By: Agatha Christie.
Edition: Winterbrook ed., 1st ed.
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Private investigators -- England -- 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.