Poirot’s final word on the mysterious affair at Styles, you will be kept guessing at its solution and will most certainly never lay down this most entertaining book.” Poirot was described as a “delightful little old man”. And you may safely make a wager with yourself that until you have heard M. Poirot to unravel the whole complicated plot and lay the guilt where it really belonged. “Though this may be the first published book of Miss Agatha Christie, she betrays the cunning of an old hand … You must wait for the last-but-one chapter in the book for the last link in the chain of evidence that enabled Mr. The New York Times Book Review was also impressed: Every reader must admit that the bet was won”.
It went on to describe the basic set-up of the plot and concluded: “It is said to be the author’s first book, and the result of a bet about the possibility of writing a detective story in which the reader would not be able to spot the criminal. The Times Literary Supplement gave the book an extremely enthusiastic review, which stated that “The only fault this story has is that it is almost too ingenious”. There are a half-dozen suspects, most of whom are hiding facts about themselves, and a number of red herrings and surprise plot twists.
It is set in a large, isolated country manor. The story is told in first person by Hastings, and features many of the elements that, thanks to Christie, have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is Christie’s first published novel, and introduces Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp and Lieutenant Hastings (later, Captain). Volume 1 of this collection contains Agatha Christie’s early including works, including her very first novel and the first introduction to Hercule Poirot in The Mysterious Affair at Styles as well as the first introduction to Tommy and Tuppance in the critically acclaimed detective novel The Secret Adversary. THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ALL TIME WITH OVER 4 BILLION COPIES SOLD! THE COMPLETE MYSTERY NOVELS OF AGATHA CHRISTIE Vol 1 (Special Kindle Edition)
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Perhaps more surprising than the revelation of the murderer is the detective who will crack the case: ‘a white-haired old lady with a gentle, appealing manner.’ Miss Jane Marple has arrived on the scene, and crime literature’s private men’s club of great detectives will never be the same. There is of course the faithless Mrs Protheroe and there is of course her young lover - an artist, to boot. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be ‘doing the world at large a favour,’ is a suspect - the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman’s study, no less. The murder of Colonel Protheroe - shot through the head - is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one.
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