The Mysterious Affair At Styles Paperback - 2012

Name: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Price: 22.11 GBP
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Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9781477467244

by Agatha Christie

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About this book

Written in 1916, during World War I, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is Agatha Christie’s first published novel. The story introduces the author’s world-famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, as well as Lieutenant (later Captain) Hastings and Inspector (later Chief Inspector) Japp. The mystery begins with Poirot settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is killed, Poirot must apply his detective skills to solve the mystery based on a few seemingly random clues. The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will.

From the publisher

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE, a novelist and playwright, was born on 15th Sept 1890 and died on 12th Jan 1976. She has written 66 detective novels and 15 short stories and some plays. She is the best-selling novelist of all time, claimed by Guinness Book of World Record. Her famous works include: Murder in Mesopotamia (1936), Appointment with Death (1938), Death on the Nile (1937), They Came to Baghdad (1951), The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) and The Secret Adversary.

First Edition Identification

After having been rejected by six publishers, John Lane (US) produced the story in novel form for the first time in October 1920. (The Mysterious Affair at Styles had previously been serialized in the UK’s The Times in February of that year.) The first edition of the novel has a hardcover with 296 pages. Beneath the dustjacket illustrated by Alfred James Dewey, the book is covered in pale brown cloth with dark green lettering on the upper cover and spine.