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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By Agatha Christie

Cover of The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Cover: Strandgade, Sunshine (c. 1906) by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) · Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first mystery novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: I Go to Styles
  2. 2: The 16th and 17th of July
  3. 3: The Night of the Tragedy
  4. 4: Poirot Investigates
  5. 5: “It Isn’t Strychnine, Is It?”
  6. 6: The Inquest
  7. 7: Poirot Pays His Debts
  8. 8: Fresh Suspicions
  9. 9: Dr. Bauerstein
  10. 10: The Arrest
  11. 11: The Case for the Prosecution
  12. 12: The Last Link
  13. 13: Poirot Explains