
To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Our full analysis and study guide provides an even deeper dive with character analysis. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Get ready to explore The Mysterious Affair at Styles and its meaning. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.48in - 0.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery. Although the book only sold some two thousand copies and earned Christie seventy dollars, the publication encouraged her to continue writing mysteries. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. Christie wrote one, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and in 1920 it was published by the English firm of Lane. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life.


It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Hercule Poirot solves his first case in the Agatha Christie novel that started it all, now in a fully restored edition that features a missing chapter. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.Styles was Christie's first published novel. When the wealthy mistress of Styles Court is murdered, Poirot is on hand to wade through the confusing clues and long list of suspects! A classic whodunit.This special edition is loaded with bonus content.reviews of the era, a filmography, and a complete bonus Agatha Christie novel, "The Secret Adversary.""The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie.

In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduced readers to her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. The Mysterious Affair At Styles is set during the First World War and is Agatha Christie’s debut novel.
