Access Today The Mysterious Affair At Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1) Penned By Agatha Christie Accessible Through Ebook

you've read my reviews before, you know I love mystery fiction, and in particular, the classics.
Agatha Christie died in, and I was born the following year, Two things come to mind, . .It's a good thing I wasn't alive when she died because I would have been so miserable to be around.
Since I was born just about a year later, I'm wondering if maybe a small part of her lives on.
. . as I love her genius and her works of literature, . . and I can reread her books over and over again without ever getting bored,



There are tons of reviews of all her major works, and I don't need to be repetitive in my review.
What I'd really try to get across is why you need to read ANY of her works, and then why I'd suggest this one:

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This was one of her first books, and I believe the first published one, in, which means she was probably writing it exactlyyears ago.
And though some of the language is a little different, and it takes place with a different cultural atmosphere, the crux of the story its plot, is appropriate at any point in time.
People don't love Christie for her beautiful language or her great ideas, . . yeah, she had some of those, . . but it's her plots and characters that stand out, And those transcend time.



. Who else can create such a puzzle that you are constantly trying to guess what's going on True, tons of writers today, but notyears ago.
And even with modern writers, it's often in a suspense and thriller type of novel, where it's all about the chase.
Christie was all about the calm approach to solving a murder, She didn't try to end each chapter with a big WOW and heartwrenching scare tactic, It's simple evolution of a timeline, collections of clues, conversations with people, . . and then you start to see the puzzle come together, But at the last minute, you get the unexpected twist,

. With this first book, you meet Hercule Poirot, one of her two popular detectives, Poirot is annoying. He's painful. He will make you angry while you are laughing, And that's the cool part, Columbo is the best comparison I can come up with, And I'm certain Columbo was based on large part by Christie's Poirot,



So why this book

It's the first in the series, It's a prime example of why her stories work, It's the ultimate tale a family with secrets, It takes place in the UK, . . the best place to visit and perhaps live, I don't live there, only visited it, :

But it's really the slow buildup of the clues that will have your mind working overtime.
So if you need a Christie standalone book, go to "And Then There Were None, " If you like female investigators, choose a Miss Marple, If you like a Belgian male detective, flip a coin and pick between Murder on the Orient Express or The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
Both will be a great read, But if you need to start at the beginning, go with this one to see what an author's first book looks like.
Because if I didn't have my Christie, . . I'd be like



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This is thest volume from the famous Hercule Poirot series and it shows, The writing style still needs some refining, same with the characters and plot, Still, a satisfying short mystery, Hercule Poirot! It all started here!

The Mysterious Affair at Styles can only be categorized as a classic among classics.
In, on the strength of a dare, Agatha Christie penned a cozy mystery that introduced a grateful reading world to Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings, the detective and sidekick duo who hold their place in literary fame alongside such luminaries as Holmes and Watson or Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe.


Captain Arthur Hastings, a guest at Styles Court, the family manor of longtime friend John Cavendish, finds himself hipdeep in a locked room murder mystery when Cavendish's mother, Emily Inglethorpe, is found poisoned

by strychnine inside her locked bedroom! Hastings, who fancies himself a competent amateur sleuth, suggests the Cavendish family engage his friend, Hercule Poirot, a recently retired Belgian detective of no small skill and reputation, to find the culprit.
There is certainly no shortage of possible motives, clues and suspects John and Lawrence Cavendish, the victim's sons who are suffering from pecuniary difficulty and constant financial embarrassment Alfred Ingelthorpe, the blackguard, moneygrubbing husband who stands to inherit the entire estate at the expense of the rest of the family Evie Howard, Mrs Inglethorpe's companion and longtime family friend recently dismissed from the estate after a bitter argument with the matriarch over the intentions of her new husband Cynthia Murdoch, the chemist with access to strychnine or perhaps Dr Bauerstein, a renowned expert on poisons entangled in an affair with Mary Cavendish!

A thoroughly enjoyable novel, easily read in a couple of sittings, The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced us to all the hallmarks of typical Poirot mysteries the quirky, vain fastidiousness of the little Belgian detective and his love of method, order and the use of "the little gray cells" the loyalty, charm, unfailing gentlemanly behaviour and decidedly humorous upper class character of the exmilitary man, Hastings the liberal sprinkling of clues and possible suspects and, of course, the muchloved and often imitated stereotypical congregation of the entire cast in the single room climax in which Poirot outlines his deductions and reveals the culprit for the edification of all!

If you've never read an Agatha Christie mystery, this would perhaps be THE place to start! If you've read her work before, then pick this one up again, reread it and discover why you fell in love with Agatha Christie and Poirot in the first place.


Highly recommended.

Paul Weiss.