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Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Christie, Agatha
Series: Hercule Poirot Published by : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : | Distributed by Workman Pub. Co., (New York :) Physical details: 224 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN:9781579126223; 1579126227.
Subject(s): Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) | Private investigators -- England | Beresford, Tuppence (Fictitious character) | Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious character) | Mystery fiction.
Year: 2006
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Originally published in 1920.

"Agatha Christie collection"--Dust jacket.

I go to styles -- The 16th and 17th of July -- The night of the tragedy -- Poirot investigates -- "It isn't strychnine, is it?" -- The inquest -- Poirot pays his debts -- Fresh suspicions -- Dr. Bauerstein -- The arrest -- The case for the prosecution -- The last link -- Poirot explains.

Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.