The Mysterious Affair At Styles (hercule Poirot Book 1)

By (author) Christie, Agatha
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A country house
A murder
A Belgian detective
Description:
A country house
A murder
A Belgian detective

After the Great War, life can never be the same again.

Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to Styles To recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder.

Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who happens to be staying nearby . . .

Here, for the first time, meet Agatha Christie’s legendary creation: Hercule Poirot

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‘Almost too ingenious … very clearly and brightly told.’
Times Literary Supplement
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‘Very well contrived.’
Sunday Times
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‘Altogether a skilful tale and a talented first book.’
Daily News
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‘The most ingenious and absorbingly interesting tale of sensations and mystery we have read for a long time.’
Bookman
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‘Well written, well proportioned, and full of surprises. Lovers of good stories will, without exception, rejoice in this book.’
The British Weekly
Biographical note:

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

Promotional headline:

The first Hercule Poirot novel

Feature:

The first Hercule Poirot novel

• The first time Agatha Christie has been published in B format.

• Newly repackaged Agatha Christie paperbacks, designed in response to market research and target the largest possible number of potential Agatha Christie readers.

• Two out of three of all fiction readers have read an Agatha Christie book, and more than half want to read her again.

.• Also available as an unabridged audiobook, read by Hugh Fraser.

• The first ever Hercule Poirot book - includes an introduction by Christie archivist John Curran, and the original unpublished courtroom chapter as an alternate ending to the novel.

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