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The mysterious affair at Styles / Agatha Christie

By:

Christie, Agatha, (1890-1976)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Bantam Books , 1983, c1940Description: 196 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0553350048

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Mystery fiction

DDC classification:

MYS CHR

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Mystery	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	MYS CHR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		023231

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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.

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