Book description
A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first
investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place…
The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain
Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive
ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole,
Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel
Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington.
So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that
one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was
crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally
deserted him?… 'First rate Christie: fast, complicated, wryly funny' Time
'Superb, vintage Christie' Sunday Express Agatha Christie was born in
Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in
history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written
towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot,
who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since
Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of
Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language
and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of
80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels
under the name of Mary Westmacott.
