The Mysterious Affair at Styles

About “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”

Set in the summer of 1917, war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings visits the Styles St. Mary manor of his friend John Cavendish, where tension surrounds the marriage of John's wealthy widowed aunt Emily to the suspicious younger Alfred Inglethorp. When Emily dies of strychnine poisoning, Hastings recruits his old friend, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, to investigate among a household full of suspects. A 1920 novel by Agatha Christie.