Hercule Poirot grapples with a chain of mysteries that challenge his ingenuity and display the author’s wide-ranging imagination to fine effect. Here is a sparkling collection of mystery gems, polished puzzlers from the pen of Agatha Christie starring the vain, eccentric and utterly brilliant Hercule Poirot. all Poirot required to display his now legendary powers of detection. A shattered coffee cup, a splash of candle grease, a bed of begonias. Her presence had spelt security now the air seemed rife with suspicion and impending evil. And with her, something indefinable had gone from the atmosphere. Inglethorp, had stormed out of the house muttering something about ‘a lot of sharks’. Evelyn, the constant companion to old Mrs. Recently, there had been some strange goings-on at Styles St Mary. With impeccable timing, Hercule Poirot, the renowned Belgian detective, makes his dramatic entrance onto the English crime stage.
Agatha Christie’s first-ever murder mystery. Inglethorp is found poisoned, suspicion falls on the family, and another old friend, Hercule Poirot, is invited to investigate. Despite the tranquil surroundings Hastings begins to realize that all is not right. Here, Hastings meets John’s stepmother, Mrs. The story begins when Hastings is sent back to England from the First World War due to injury and is invited to spend his sick leave at the beautiful Styles Court by his old friend John Cavendish.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Book Description :Īgatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was the result of a dare from her sister Madge who challenged her to write a story. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering, the ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard, has been heard to say: “She’s just the finest detective God ever made”-and many Agatha Christie fans would agree. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature-and used it to devastating effect. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as “the typical old maid of fiction,” Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St. It’s an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. While certain famous authors like Asimov or Verne have written their best books at the start of their carrier, and then after they became famous, they wrote mostly average quality books with only a few gems, this doesn't seem to be true to Agatha Christie.Miss Marple The Complete Short Stories Book Description : If you are new to Agatha Christie, then I would advise against reading the books in chronological order, because if you give up halfway, then you might miss some of the best books. The short story collection The Labours of Hercules (1947) has a frame story connecting the short stories in it, so the short stories in any one of the short story collections should be read together in order. In particular, Curtain happens in the same location as the very first story The Mysterious Affair at Styles, but apart from Poirot and his companion Hastings, it has entirely new characters, and the mysteries in the two are completely unrelated as well. But Curtain makes only minor references to a few of the earlier stories, and is readable independently of those. Indeed, Curtain is the last Poirot story in universe, and Agatha Christie has always intended so. At least this is what I believe from reading over a dozen of the 45 Poirot books, so there might be exceptions. Nor are the earlier books necessary to understand the plot of newer books. Other than that, the Poirot books sometimes mention earlier stories, but only in minor ways, and they never spoil them. Thus, if you read those short story collections, there is a risk that you get spoilers for several novels.
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There's no need to read the Poirot books in any particular order.Īgatha Christie has rewritten a few of the early Poirot short stories (see list) from the book Poirot's Early Cases (1923) and The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (1939) and the posthumous collection While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997) into full novels later.
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