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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
(1920)
Set in the hotel of Styles Court in Styles, Essex County, England, this is Agatha Christie's first published novel featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
Arthur Hastings is a retired military captain who wants to stay in a peaceful country home, but discovers it is anything but peaceful.
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A Long Time Favorite
Agatha Christie Was Amazing.I've Read Body In The Library And The Mirror Crack'd With Miss Marple,And Witness For The Prosecution,But My Favorite Was Poirot.I Own Them All And Have Many Favorites-And Then There Were None,5 Little Pigs,Murder On The Orient Express,The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd,Peril At End House,Curtain,Death On The Nile,Evil Under The Sun,Appointment With Death - Each One's Solution Was A Shock And A Pleasant Surprise.She And Stephen King Were My Favorites In High School And Just Out Of It.And I Am So Glad The Literature Network Has Included Her.(Any Plans For More Christie?)
Posted By Armand at Sat 6 Aug 2005, 9:24 PM in The Mysterious Affair at Styles || 0 Replies
Hercule Poirot
I find that Dame Agatha Christie is the greatest crime writer ever. Her ingenuity lies in her ability to surprise the reader each time with the real criminal. Her best book was "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" because the murderer is a BIG surprise. The character of Hercule Poirot is one of literature's greatest creations and his powers of deduction are SUPER. He is a more eccentric detective than Sherlock Holmes and I find him more amusing.
Posted By Unregistered at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in The Mysterious Affair at Styles || 3 Replies
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I always really enjoyed Agatha Christie's books and her skill to write mystery. I have read many of her books, but I really liked the first one I read, And Then There Were None, formerly known as Ten Little Indians. Just recently, I read Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which was a good book too, but the ending is quite sad, but it's still a good book. Another one of her books I liked was The Seven Dials Mystery, which was quite a twist at the end. Most of her books that I have read, I have forgotten, like Sleeping Murder. I personally think that her most boring book so far must be The Hound Of Death, which has twelve different stories, and most of them are boring and confusing, but some were good.
Posted By Anonymous at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in The Mysterious Affair at Styles || 0 Replies
Big Four
I think that Agatha Christie is awesome. My favorite one of her detectives was Poirot because he uses his "little gray cells". I really liked Murder on the Orient Express though my favorite book by her was The Big Four.
Posted By Unregistered at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in The Mysterious Affair at Styles || 0 Replies
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Agatha Christie is the greatest crime writer, thatīs my opinion, too. She writes so mysteriously and the murders in her books are big surprises. Iīve read only The Mysterious Affair At Styles and The Curtain, but will read all her books, they really are the best ones in the crime scene.
Posted By Unregistered at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in The Mysterious Affair at Styles || 0 Replies
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This was the first Agatha Christie novel I ever read... and I loved it! It kept me on my toes trying to guess who had done it. I like how she writes everything so clearly.
Posted By Unregistered at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in The Mysterious Affair at Styles || 0 Replies
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I agree with the person who wrote on July 16, 2002. Agatha Christie is the best mystery writer ever and, though The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is very good, my favorite was the Sleeping Murder, and it too had a very big surprise murderer. Hercule Poirot is good, but I like Miss Marple better, too. And the couple books with Tuppence and (that other guy that I can't remember his name) were good too.
Posted By Unregistered at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in The Mysterious Affair at Styles || 0 Replies
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The summary is very poor. Styles Court is a country house, not a hotel, and Hastings is in the Army, not the police. Both of these points are clearly made in the text, and if this is a sample of quality control here, it is lacking.
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Posted By Unregistered at Tue 24 May 2005, 6:07 PM in The Mysterious Affair at Styles || 0 Replies
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Are you sure Styles Court is a hotel...? And Hastings a detective...?
Posted By becky elder at Fri 9 Aug 2002, 1:00 AM in The Mysterious Affair at Styles || 2 Replies