Christie, Agatha  <br/><br/>
Mysterious Affair at Styles  a Hercule Poirot mystery  
 The mysterious affair at Styles  
Agatha Christie. 
 - New York :  Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers :  Distributed by Workman Pub. Co.,  [2006?] 
 - 224 p. ;  22 cm. 
 - Hercule Poirot . <br/><br/> Originally published in 1920.  "Agatha Christie collection"--Dust jacket. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781579126223 1579126227 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006045986 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character)<br/>Private investigators--England<br/>Beresford, Tuppence (Fictitious character)<br/>Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious character)
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Chr   30