Her straight forward prose was able to hide wonderful twists and turns. I was immediately struck by the ease and apparent simplicity of her writing. I finally picked up The Body in the Library years ago when there was an outcry that the new Marple adaptation had changed the ending, and I was therefore intrigued to see how they had changed it. In fact, I haven't actually read that many books by Agatha Christie, I know, for shame.
But for some reason I never felt compelled to pick one up myself. When I was younger I'd watched the BBC adaptations on Mystery and my friend Sarah used to devour the books at a prodigious rate, I remember her actually picking up an omnibus edition when we were on vacation in LA and I think she had finished it before we arrived home. Now this may come as a surprise, but until now I've never read an Agatha Christie novel with Poirot.
With Poirot on the case, soon all the suspects will be rounded up and he will point the finger at the murderer. Hastings doesn't take long to ask his old friend for help. Poirot has been displaced by the war and placed in Essex. Hastings knew Poirot back in Belgium when Poirot was a detective of great renown. Then felicitously, Hasting runs into Hercule Poirot. Hastings wants to help but is at a bit of a lose. With everyone acting suspicious, and a new husband to point the finger at, things get more complicated as multiple wills arise. All the doors to her room were locked and, despite the local doctors insisting that her heart just gave out, it turns out to be murder. Though the situation is about to get much worse. Emily Inglethorp's friend, who has long lived at Styles, as well as Emily's ward, Cynthia Murdoch, is so upset, that Evelyn leaves quite volubly on Hastings arrival. She was a wonderful mother to them but has recently re-married an odd younger man who was her secretary, a Mr. Yet the real trouble lies with John and Lawrence's step-mother.
John and his wife are in residence, as is John's younger brother, Lawrence. Running into his old friend John Cavendish, he's invited to stay at the family estate Styles, in Essex, where Hastings lands in the middle of a family crisis. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieĪrthur Hastings has been invalided out from the war. Book Review - Charlaine Harris's Dead Ever After.Book Review - Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Aff.Book Review - Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary.Book Review - Agatha Christie's The Murder on the.Book Review - Agatha Christie's Poirot Investigates.
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