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008			210715t19831940nyc 000 1 eng d
020			_a0553350048
082	1		_aMYS CHR _2
100	1		_aChristie, Agatha _d(1890-1976)
245	1	0	_aThe mysterious affair at Styles _c/ Agatha Christie
260			_aNew York _b: Bantam Books _c, 1983, c1940
300			_a196 p. _c; 22 cm
520			_aA 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.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aPoirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) _x-Fiction
650		4	_aPrivate investigators _z-England _v--Fiction
655		4	_aMystery fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c264536 _d264536