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The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.
- Agatha Christie
- 1920
The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Hercule Poirot. ⌸ Novel. 1920. Agatha 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.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel written by Agatha Christie in 1916 during the time she was serving as a VAD dispenser at the Torbay Infirmary and Dispensary. After being rejected by some six publishers, it was finally accepted by John Lane who had it serialised in The Times...
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), introduced Hercule Poirot, her eccentric and egotistic Belgian detective; Poirot reappeared in about 25 novels and many short stories before returning to Styles, where, in Curtain (1975), he died.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles was written in 1916 while Agatha Christie volunteered as a nurse during the First World War. After the war and with six consecutive rejections, it was finally published in the U.S. on October 1, 1920.
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The promotional copy accompanying The Mysterious Affair at Styles claimed that Agatha Christie wrote the novel to win a bet about her ability to write a murder mystery in which it’s impossible to guess the killer’s identity.
The Mysterious Affair At Styles is the first novel by Agatha Christie published in 1920 and written in part as a dare from her sister.
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