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With many other mystery series, I have endeavored to read the first in the series to gain insight. At such time, an author may give us background for a character's raison d'etre. I freely admit that I came to know Poirot on TV, not through print, so I felt perfectly free to read in whatever order an installment came into my hands and not worry about the first in the series. I wasn't wrong in that thinking, but I'm very glad to have read this.
This takes place during WWI, and we find Mrs. Ingleth ...more
This takes place during WWI, and we find Mrs. Ingleth ...more
I love Agatha Christie. How the woman wrote so many wonderful mysteries is beyond me.
I've read one or two novels by Agatha Christie in the distant past but have never read her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. I picked this book up as part of a reading challenge and am so glad I did. This was a delightful short read, with quite a you-won't-see-it-coming twist at the end .
Not only is this Christie's debut but it is also the debut of one of literature's best loved detectives, Hercule Poirot. I found the relationship between Poirot and his narrator,Hastings, to be quit ...more
Not only is this Christie's debut but it is also the debut of one of literature's best loved detectives, Hercule Poirot. I found the relationship between Poirot and his narrator,Hastings, to be quit ...more
This took me for.ev.er to finish. Slow going but a satisfying end. Reread someday.
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