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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155512503321

Autore

Christie Agatha <1890-1976.>

Titolo

The mysterious affair at Styles / / Agatha Christie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York, New York] : , : Sheba Blake Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-304-77494-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (566 p.)

Disciplina

823.912

Soggetti

Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character)

Private investigators - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920, is Agatha Christie's first detective novel. It serves as the introduction to Hercule Poirot, Belgian inspector extraordinaire. Egg-headed with nicely kempt mustaches, Poirot is one of the most famous and long-lived characters in detective fiction. When Christie's final book featuring him was published in 1975 (a year before her death), he would be the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times: 6 August 1975 ""Hercule Poirot is Dead; Famed Belgian Detective.""  The Mysterious Affair at Styles is set in England dur