The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Poirot's First Case (Hercule Poirot, #1)

by Agatha Christie

“If you people only knew how fatally easy it is to poison some one by mistake, you wouldn’t joke about it.

Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

It is always wise to suspect everybody until you can prove logically, and to your own satisfaction, that they are innocent.

“Instinct is a marvellous thing,” mused Poirot. “It can neither be explained nor ignored.”