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by Agatha Christie
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles Summary
| The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the sensational rumours which still persist. I will therefore briefly set down the circumstances which led to my being connected with the affair. I had been invalided home from the Front; and, after spending some months in a rather depressing Convale-scent Home, was given a month's sick leave. Having no near relations or friends, I was trying to make up my mind what to do, when I ran across John Cavendish. I had seen very little of him for some years. Indeed, I had never known him particularly well. He was a good fifteen years my senior, for one thing, though he hardly looked his forty-five years. As a boy, though, I had often stayed at Styles, his mother's place in Essex. |
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| The famous case that launched the career of Hercule Poirot. When a wealthy heiress is murdered, Poirot steps out of retirement to find the killer. As the master detective makes his way through the list of suspects, he finds the solution in an elaborately planned scheme almost impossible to believe. |
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| The illustrious career of Hercule Poirot begins with this tale of intrigue. Poirot, a master of inquiry, is called in to investigate the sudden death of elderly Emily Inglethorp at Styles Court in the village of Styles-Saint-Mary in Essex. She has just married for a second time, and Alfred Inglethorp (a former secretary and 20 years younger than Emily) is the new husband. There are many people in residence at Styles at the time of death who can be considered suspects...at the top of the list is Alfred whose name she repeated several times as she was dying. Nervously restrained accusations in the household reach the bursting point. A post-mortem is performed; strychnine is detected. This sensitive situation now requires the utmost discretion. Poirot, a retired Belgian detective, employs investigative methods that inspect every small detail that tells its own story and must fit seamlessly into the whole picture. A shattered coffee cup, a piece of burned paper, an empty box of sedatives, and several wills written at different times must all be considered. Poirot's careful and ceaseless examination of particulars at last bring the complicated events to a precise resolution. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable. |
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E-book exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Mysterious Affair at Styles; "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. Captain Arthur Hastings, invalided in the Great War, is recuperating as a guest of John Cavendish at Styles Court, the 'country-place' of John's autocratic old aunt, Emily Inglethorpe -- she of a sizeable fortune, and so recently remarried to a man twenty years her junior. When Emily's sudden heart attack is found to be attributable to strychnine, Hastings recruits an old friend, now retired, to aid in the local investigation. With impeccable timing, Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective, makes his dramatic entrance into the pages of crime literature. |
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The famous case that launched the career of Hercule Poirot. When a wealthy heiress is murdered, Poirot steps out of retirement to find the killer. As the master detective makes his way through the list of suspects, he finds the solution in an elaborately planned scheme almost impossible to believe. |
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"Future scholars of the simon-pure detective novel will hold that its greatest practitioner . . . has been Agatha Christie." -The New York Times Book Review |
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| The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduces Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's famous detective character with his little gray cells, absurd patent leather shoes, and magnificent mustaches. Poirot starred in more than 30 of Christie's novels, and in many movies. |
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One of Dame Agatha Christie's earliest detective novels and one of her very best. There is a new twist or turn on almost every one of its two hundred plus pages. When the heiress of Styles is poisoned there are suspects a plenty, from her avaricious new young husband to her pauper son-in-law to her vengeful daughter-in-law. Enter the man whose head is full of very active "little grey cells" and not a few eccentricities. Here's mystery writing at its best, in a book full of Christie's patented warm, insightful characterizations.
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' The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
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| When Emily Inglethorpe is found fatally poisoned Captain Hastings, who is staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend Hercule Poirot to solve this horrible murder. When the evidence points to one particular family member it is up to Poirot, through his methodical investigations, to prove the real murderer is someone else entirely. |
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| Meet the original Hercule Poirot, as he gives up his peaceful country life to help his old WWI buddy seek a murderer. |
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| The heiress of Styles has been murdered, dying in agony from strychnine slipped into her coffee. And there are plenty of people who would gain from her death: the financially strapped stepson, the gold-digging younger husband, and an embittered daughter-in-law. Monsieur Poirot comes out of retirement to figure out who would have the impudence--and the motive--to commit the crime. In this book Agatha Christie's eccentric and hugely popular detective, Hercule Poirot, was introduced to the world, launching her career as the most famous and best-loved of all mystery writers. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press. |
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