The mysterious affair at Styles
Christie, Agatha (1890-1976)
The mysterious affair at Styles / Agatha Christie - New York : Bantam Books , 1983, c1940 - 196 p. ; 22 cm
A wealthy woman is poisoned at an English country manor and the world of detective fiction is changed forever. When Captain Arthur Hastings runs into an old friend, John Cavendish, and is invited to the family estate at Styles, he has a "premonition of approaching evil." Outside, the Great War is still raging, and England is in upheaval. Cavendish's widowed stepmother has brought the turmoil home by marrying a sinister-looking younger man, and when she is killed, presumably poisoned with strychnine, he becomes the first and most obvious suspect. But other family members may also have had motives for murder. Luckily, one of the Belgian refugees from the German occupation staying at Styles is a retired police detective: Hercule Poirot is on the case.
English
0553350048
Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character)---Fiction
Private investigators---England----Fiction
Mystery fiction
MYS CHR
The mysterious affair at Styles / Agatha Christie - New York : Bantam Books , 1983, c1940 - 196 p. ; 22 cm
A wealthy woman is poisoned at an English country manor and the world of detective fiction is changed forever. When Captain Arthur Hastings runs into an old friend, John Cavendish, and is invited to the family estate at Styles, he has a "premonition of approaching evil." Outside, the Great War is still raging, and England is in upheaval. Cavendish's widowed stepmother has brought the turmoil home by marrying a sinister-looking younger man, and when she is killed, presumably poisoned with strychnine, he becomes the first and most obvious suspect. But other family members may also have had motives for murder. Luckily, one of the Belgian refugees from the German occupation staying at Styles is a retired police detective: Hercule Poirot is on the case.
English
0553350048
Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character)---Fiction
Private investigators---England----Fiction
Mystery fiction
MYS CHR
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