The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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Courier Corporation, Jan 1, 1997 - Fiction - 153 pages
When an aging heiress is found fatally poisoned, the amazing Hercule Poirot, brilliant Belgian criminal investigator, is brought out of retirement to solve the case. In this classic tale of murder, jealousy and greed, Agatha Christie introduced the famed sleuth, who is immediately confronted by mysteries within a mystery - a door bolted from the inside of the victim's room; the disappearance of a coffee cup believed to have held the poison, the charred remains of a will, a strange fragment of fabric and a curious rug stain found near the body. All are puzzling pieces of evidence in a crime for which there is no shortage of suspects, not the least of which are the victim's philandering husband, an assortment of unhappy relatives and an extremely outspoken hired companion!
 

Contents

Go to Styles
1
The 16th and 17th of July
11
The Night of the Tragedy
18
Poirot Investigates
24
It Isnt Strychnine Is It?
41
The Inquest
62
Poirot Pays His Debts
73
Fresh Suspicions
83
Dr Bauerstein
96
The Arrest
107
The Case for the Prosecution
120
The Last Link
135
Poirot Explains
143
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Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the bestselling novelist in history; only the Bible and the works of Shakespeare are more frequently purchased than her mysteries, which have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in 100 foreign languages. Her play, The Mousetrap, opened in London in 1952 and has run continuously ever since.

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