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Mysterious Affair at Styles

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This first mystery by Dame Agatha Christie introduces dapper, brilliant Hercule Poirot. Retired as the Chief of Belgian police, he is summoned to a magnificent country estate to solve a murder. The victim: a wealthy heiress. The suspects: her fortune-hunting husband, her jealous relatives, her hiredContinue

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A hot summer morning getting the PT Cruiser’s air conditioning repaired – so to keep myself from stressing too much about the upcoming prognosis, I sat in the shop revisiting a classic whodunnit. Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles (192 ... (read full critics)

blogcritics published on Mon, 20 Jun 2011

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This book is almost from 100 years ago. One would expect that, with all the mysteries and crime novels and CSI seasons we are used to, the plot will look very naive and childish to a modern eye.
One would expect that and be completely and utterly wrong.
The clockwork machinery devised by Christie i ... (continue)

This book is almost from 100 years ago. One would expect that, with all the mysteries and crime novels and CSI seasons we are used to, the plot will look very naive and childish to a modern eye.
One would expect that and be completely and utterly wrong.
The clockwork machinery devised by Christie is still working perfectly, even after a century: the reader can enjoy trying to understand who the culprit is, but he'll also enjoy being fooled when it turns out the killer is not at all the character he expected.

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