The mysterious affair at Styles
Subtitle: the first Hercule Poirot mystery
By: Agatha Christie
Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
Series: Hercule Poirot mysteries -- bk. 1
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Thorndike, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781611739541
Copyright date: 1921
Subjects: Private investigators; Murder; Investigation; War wounds; Widows; May-December romances; Fiction
Description: Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.