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- 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.
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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
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The seeds of writing a crime novel were planted in Agatha Christie’s mind when her older sister Madge challenged her to write a mystery. During WWI, while Christie was working at the dispensary, she decided to use some of her free time to write.
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 Weekly Edition in February 1920.
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In Agatha Christie. 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.
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 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.
