![]() The motive was easy to suss out on this one, and if you read a lot of Christie, you will quickly recognize certain plot elements that she recycled later on, but for a first novel, this really is a genuine classic. ![]() At times, it is even enough to throw the reader off, but every now and then, Christie allows us to be more intelligent than her investigative assistant often is, and that's always good fun. And it's always a trip to see just how confused Poirot's non-answers tend to make him. Either Hastings will be completely wrong as to the identity of the killer (which you can usually tell as a reader right off the bat, if that is the case), or he is right about the killer, but MASSIVELY off about the reasoning and logistics behind it. I can say, having read quite a few short stories with Hastings as the narrator previous to this story, that I always know that one of two things will be the case. Given how xenophobic a lot of the characters are in Christie works, one must imagine that this anti-foreign sentiment was shared by a lot of Christie's English readers as well (at least in the earliest works.) But I enjoyed this mystery immensely. This item: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Paperback 10.99 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot) by Agatha Christie Paperback 10.00 The Murder on the Links: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie Paperback 9. Now, I had already read three Poirot novels and numerous short stories, but I do like to imagine what the ideas were of the readers who were introduced to him through Hastings' observations about the famous Belgian detective in this first novel of Christie's. A fun first adventure to introduce readers to what would become one of literature's most famous detectives: Monsieur Hercule Poirot. ![]()
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