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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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Celebrating 100 years of Agatha Christie stories, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is Hercule Poirot’s first case, performed on audio by Captain Hastings actor Hugh Fraser.

‘Beware! Peril to the detective who says: “It is so small – it does not matter…” Everything matters.’

After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory.

Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement…

©1920 Agatha Christie (P)2003 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK Amateur Sleuths Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Crime

Critic Reviews

"Almost too ingenious...very clearly and brightly told. (Times Literary Supplement
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Hugh Fraser's 'Papa Poirot' never fails to crack me up :) I promise you won't regret getting stuck into this series.

Hugh Fraser - amazing

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For me, Poirot is the greatest fictional detective. Now you can enjoy his first outing supported by a great performance!

The beginning of a legend.

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I figured out the culprit very early on but the story made me stray from my original beliefs. now I know better.

so many red herring

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I believe this was Agatha Christie's first published work, and it has a few clunky moments, in my opinion - but she relates the story in the wonderful style so familiar from the many later works I have read. I remember Captain Hastings and was pleased to encounter him again - as well as the incomparable Poirot.

Most entertaining detective novel

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I found this book to be a pleasant way to spend a quiet Sunday afternoon, in the garden.

Enjoyable.

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What a great start to the legacy of Poirot. And the skills of a genius like Agatha to bring him to life. Well narrated and enjoy!

Agatha you genius

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Like the reader and didn’t work out culprit until all was revealed typical Agatha Christiemn n
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The z,d

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I adore Fraser and his reading of Christie. What I didn't really enjoy was the predictable ending of this one. It left me feeling a little bit mift, but Poirot was hilarious in this one.

It's not her best.

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