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The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)

Agatha Christie

Start date: January 1, 2025

Finish date: January 31, 2025

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Apr 26, 2020 Pat rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, quarantine-reads, veddy-veddy-english

I decided to re-read Agatha Christie after watching a very very dark version of "And Then There Were None" on Acorn TV. I commented to a friend, that I had read quite a lot of Agatha Christie when I was in my teenage years, and certainly did not remember them being so gruesome. So, I decided to revisit Agatha, and see if they were as good as I remembered them.

The first book, Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot to the world. Of course, the image of David Suchet as Poirot and H ...more

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Mar 16, 2018 Teri-K rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-recommended, mystery-golden-age, senior-citizen-mcs

Poirot's first case is quite a puzzler, with suspicion falling on just about everyone in the family when an old lady dies of poison in the middle of the night. These books don't have to be read in order, but this one gives a very good understanding of Hastings, Poirot's sidekick.

NB - David Suchet narrates one version and he's excellent. Of course. ...more

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Jan 24, 2020 P. rated it liked it · review of another edition

After a slow beginning, and slower middle, the ending was at least interesting.

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Sep 17, 2012 Ruskoley rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

Not a great plot. But Poirot is awesome and the writing is so erudite. Love A.C.

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Nov 25, 2012 Chinook rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1-kindle, europe

I read a ton of Poirot novels in my early teens. I can't recall if this was one of them, but since back then I was relying on small mall bookstores rather than the much bigger ones with better selection of today, I read them very much out of order and missed tons I'm sure.

Anyway, it was an enjoyable read and I might have liked it even more if I hadn't read it in tiny chunks while nursing Kait, which occasionally made it hard to follow along with Poirot's reasoning. ...more

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