The mysterious affair at Styles
Christie, Agatha, 1890-19762020
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Marking exactly 100 years since the publication of Agatha Christie's first novel, this new edition includes a previously deleted chapter and a newly discovered essay, 'Drugs and Detective Stories', in which Agatha Christie reminisces about the inspiration for Poirot's first case. After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement.
Main title:
The mysterious affair at Styles / Agatha Christie.
Author:
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976, author
Edition:
100th anniversary edition.
Imprint:
London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
Collation:
xviii, 298 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Previous edition: London: The Bodley Head, 1921.
ISBN:
9780008400637 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.912F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2939316