![]() ![]() ![]() The first Hercule Poirot mystery, now published with a previously deleted chapter and introduced by Agatha Christie expert Dr John Curran. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Everything matters.' After the Great War, life can never be the same again. 'Beware! Peril to the detective who says: It is so small - it does not matter. Agatha Christie's first ever murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover - includes for the first time the original courtroom climax as an alternate ending. ![]()
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