Bauerstein, an expert in poison who’s visiting from London.
As everyone watches her drive away, Hastings spots a man with a big dark beard walking toward the house it’s Dr. Evelyn has therefore decided to leave Styles at once. Raikes, but Emily refused to believe these allegations. She also insisted that Alfred has been having an affair with the neighbor, Mrs.
Evelyn apparently spoke her mind to Emily, saying Alfred is just using her for her money and waiting for her to die. Hastings hears through Cynthia that Emily and Evelyn have had a terrible fight. It isn’t long before calamity breaks out. Like everyone else at Styles, he dislikes Alfred Inglethorp immediately after meeting him, finding himself greatly unsettled by the man’s presence. He also enjoys talking to Cynthia Murdock, a young woman who mixes medicines at the nearby hospital and who has been living at Styles ever since she was orphaned. He takes a particular interest in John’s wife, Mary, whom he finds attractive. Hastings’s first days at Styles Court mainly consist of meeting everyone who lives at the country house. Emily welcomed Alfred into the home, and it wasn’t long before they announced their marriage. Everyone is suspicious of Alfred, thinking he’s “fortune hunting.” When he first arrived, he claimed to be a distant cousin to Evelyn Howard, Emily’s closest friend. He explains that there’s some tension at Styles Court these days, since his stepmother, Emily, recently married a younger man named Alfred Inglethorp. After they’ve gotten reacquainted, John invites Hastings to spend time at his family’s country house, Styles Court. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement … The first Hercule Poirot mystery, now published with a previously deleted chapter and introduced by Agatha Christie expert Dr John Curran.Arthur Hastings is on leave from World War I when he runs into an old friend, John Cavendish. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished. ‘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. Agatha Christie’s first ever murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover – includes for the first time the original courtroom climax as an alternate ending. Agatha Christie's first ever murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover - includes for the first time the original courtroom climax as an alternate ending. Description for The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Poirot) Paperback.
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