The cover page is adapted from The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a painting completed in 1920 by Alfred James Dewey. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Chapitres (14)
- Dedication 0:00
- I: I Go to Styles 0:05
- II: The 16th and 17th of July 27:41
- III: The Night of the Tragedy 44:55
- IV: Poirot Investigates 59:29
- V: “It Isn’t Strychnine, Is It?” 1:40:36
- VI: The Inquest 2:35:32
- VII: Poirot Pays His Debts 3:00:22
- VIII: Fresh Suspicions 3:25:07
- IX: Dr. Bauerstein 3:59:20
- X: The Arrest 4:26:38
- XI: The Case for the Prosecution 4:59:32
- XII: The Last Link 5:35:44
- XIII: Poirot Explains 5:58:03
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles isn’t just Agatha Christie’s first Poirot novel, it was the only Poirot novel in the public domain until 2019. It was written on a bet that Christie couldn’t write a detective novel in which the reader couldn’t deduce the criminal. Her attempt laid the foundation for one of literature’s most famous detectives.
In this novel we’re introduced to Poirot as he’s settling in to a new life in England. After a woman is murdered at the country estate he’s visiting, he has to use his detective skills to catch the criminal. The Mysterious Affair at Styles sets the stage for the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and has everything you’d expect from a story rich in those classic detective fiction tropes.