The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Subjects: Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character)--Fiction; Private investigators--England--Fiction
Description: <p><i>The Mysterious Affair at Styles</i> isn’t just <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie">Agatha Christie’s</a> first <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/poirot">Poirot</a> novel, it was the only Poirot novel in the public domain until 2019. It was written on a bet that Christie couldn’t write a detective novel in which the reader couldn’t deduce the criminal. Her attempt laid the foundation for one of literature’s most famous detectives.</p>
			<p>In this novel we’re introduced to Poirot as he’s settling in to a new life in England. After a woman is murdered at the country estate he’s visiting, he has to use his detective skills to catch the criminal. <i>The Mysterious Affair at Styles</i> sets the stage for the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and has everything you’d expect from a story rich in those classic detective fiction tropes.</p>