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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ................................................... 3

AGATHA CHRISTIE ............................................. 4

PICTURES.............................................................. 5

PLOT ....................................................................... 6

PLOT....................................................................... 7

CHARACTERS ...................................................... 8

SETTING................................................................ 9

LANGUAGE AND STYLE................................... 9

WHOM DO I RECCOMEND THIS NOVEL ........ 9

SUMMARY........................................................... 10

SOURCES .............................................................. 11
INTRODUCTION
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was written in 1916 and was first published by John Lane in the USA in October 1920 and in the UK by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on January 21 1921.
In her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles(1920), she created the now- famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot , the most popular sleuth in fiction since Sherlock Holmes . Poirot and Marple have also been portrayed in the many films, radio programmes and stage plays based on her books .It is Christie's first published novel, and introduces Hercule Poirot, Inspector Japp and Lieutenant Hastings ( later , Captain) The story is told in first person by Hastings, and features many of the elements that, thanks to Christie, have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. It is set in a large, isolated country manor . There are a half -dozen suspects, most of whom are hiding facts about themselves. The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles was adapted as a 103- minute drama and transmitted on ITV in the UK on Sunday September 16, 1990 as a special episode in their series AgathaChristie'sPoirotto celebrate the centenary of the author 's birth.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Agatha Christie was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon , in England in 1890, the youngest of three children . Her father died, when she was a child . At sixteen she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano . Christie was an accomplished pianist but her stage fright and shyness prevented her from pursuing a career in music. She never attended school.
Dame Agatha Christie was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays.
On the Christmas Eve in 1914, Agatha married an aviator, Archibald Christie. their daughter , Rosalind , was born in 1919. On discovering extramarital affair, she divorced him in 1928. In the same year Christie's beloved mother died.
During World War I she worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Torquayas a hospital dispenser, which gave her a knowledge of poisons. It was to be useful when she started writing mysteries. Christie's first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, who appeared in more than 40 books, the last of which was CURTAIN (1975). The Christies bought a house and named it 'Styles' after the first novel.In 1930, Christie married with Max Mallowan. Their marriage was especially happy . Sir Max Edgar LucienMallowan, CBE (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist. Agatha Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East.Christie died on January 12, 1976 in Wallingford, Oxforshire.
Some of the Agatha Christie books:
 THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES, 1920
 THE SECRET ADVERSARY, 1922
 THE MURDER ON THE LINKS , 1923
 THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT, 1924
 POIROT INVESTIGATES, 1924
 THE ROAD OF DREAMS, 1925  THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUINN, 1930
Young Agatha Christie:
Old Agatha Christie:
PLOT
The story begins when Captain Hastings, recovering( taastama ) from wounds he suffered during the World War I, runs into an old friend , John Cavendish . Hastings is invited down to Styles, where Cavendish lives , to recuperate .
At Styles, the center of attention is Emily Inglethorp, John Cavendish's stepmother. Emily inherited Styles from John's father when he died and runs the household with a firm hand. Hastings describes her as "an energetic, autocratic personality" with a fondness for " playing the Lady Bountiful." She is devoted to charitable causes and is always getting involved(haaratud) in bazaars and other functions.
Emily hasn't changed since Hastings last saw her, and there is no question of who is running the show at Styles. Emily Inglethorp's presence and conversation dominate everyone's life at Styles. This domination must upset someone very deeply because soon Emily is found dead from strychnine poisoning. Emily was a forceful person but even so, who would want to kill her?
One obvious answer is Emily's current husband , Alfred Inglethorp. He started out being the old lady's secretary and got promoted to husband. "Rotten little bounder" is how John Cavendish describes him. Inglethorp is years younger than his wife and gushes attention on her in a very obsequious manner .
The second suspect to consider is John Cavendish himself. John, the older of two Cavendish sons , was a lawyer who has settled down to the life of a country squire. John's dislike for life at Styles is obvious from the first. The situation between Inglethorp and his stepmother is "making life jolly difficult for us," he tells Hastings. John and his wife, Mary, haven 't the funds to move to a place of their own. Emily controls all the money and it apparently never occurs to John to go back to working for a living .
Mary Cavendish is also far from happy with life at Styles. She was the free-spirited daughter of a government official who took her with him on his travels. She dislikes the inaction forced upon them by Emily's control of the money and she yearns for the days when she was not tied down. About the only interesting thing we can see in her life is an occasional tete -a-tete with the mysterious Dr. Bauerstein. Of course , she claims these meetings are totally innocent .
The next suspect is John's brother Lawrence . He is a doctor who gave up his practice to live at home and pursue a writing career. Unfortunately, he doesn't appear to be much of a success at it. "He's gone through every penny he ever had, publishing rotten verses in fancy bindings," says John. Could there be anyone better than a doctor to know about the effects of strychnine and how to get it? And if he could control his own finances , Lawrence could publish a lot more of those "rotten verses," couldn't he?
Cynthia Murdoch was the daughter of an old friend of Emily's and was left a penniless orphan when her parents died. Emily took her in and made Cynthia her ward . Emily keeps Cynthia jumping to obey her requests, which are actually just thinly veiled orders . Cynthia also works in the dispensary of a nearby hospital. Isn't that convenient for acquiring a bottle of poison ?
There is also Evelyn Howard , Mrs. Inglethorp's companion and assistant. She is "a pleasant looking woman of about forty , with a deep voice, almost manly in its stentorian tones, and had a large sensible square body." Soon after Hastings's arrival at Styles, Evelyn leaves her employment with Mrs. Inglethorp. Her leaving came after a heated argument with Emily where Evelyn said, "You're an old woman, Emily, and there's no fool like an old fool. The man's twenty years younger than you, and don't you fool yourself as to what he married you for. Money! I'm going to warn you, whether you like it or not. That man would as soon murder you in your bed as look at you." This warning of death comes true all too soon. It remains to be seen , however, if Alfred is the culprit. Everyone had opportunity administer the poison.
We also have to concern ourselves with Dr. Bauerstein, a toxicologist who is in the village recovering from a nervous breakdown. But why is it that he is seen wandering through the neighborhood at all hours , appearing after dinner at Styles completely covered with mud? How is it that he is conveniently passing the house before dawn on the day that Mrs. Inglethorp dies ?
Rounding out the cast at Styles itself are the servants, the gardener Manning and the maid Dorcas.
After the murder Hastings calls on his old friend, Hercule Poirot, the retired Belgian detective, now a refugee from the war and a resident at the neighboring village of Styles St. Mary. Though Poirot has retired, he quickly agrees to investigate the murder of Mrs. Inglethorp. After all, Emily had been instrumental in settling Poirot and some other Belgians in the village.
The clues are plentiful. There is the crushed coffee cup in Mrs. Inglethorp's room, the remains of the cocoa in another cup, the stain on the carpet , the locked despatch case , the thread on the door bolt, the candle grease on the floor , the burned fragments of paper in the fireplace .
The police are kept busy with suspects. First, there is Alfred Inglethorp. But his alibi is convincing. Then there is John Cavendish, but the evidence also points to his brother Lawrence. Even Dr. Bauerstein is taken into custody .
In the end, of course , it is up to Poirot to use his "little gray cells" to discover the murderer.
CHARACTERS
Christie's characters are usually well-to-do people. Often the comfortable lifestyle of his characters is undermined by financial problems, which lead to murder. Although her villains use very complicated plans , they are not impossible. Although Christie's writing career spanned over six decades, she was conscious of social change without fixating on the period between the two World Wars.
Characters:

Lieutenant Hastings, the narrator , on sick leave from the Western Front.
Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective displaced by the war to England; Hastings' old friend
Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard
Emily Inglethorp, mistress of Styles, a wealthy old woman, John Cavendish’s stepmother, forceful person, an energetic, autoratic personality.
Alfred Inglethorp, her much younger new husband.
John Cavendish, her elder stepson and remainderman to Styles.
Mary Cavendish, John's wife.
Lawrence Cavendish, John's younger brother.
Evelyn Howard, Mrs. Inglethorp's companion.
Cynthia Murdoch, the beautiful, orphaned daughter of a friend of the family.
Dr. Bauerstein, a suspicious toxicologist.
Dorcas, a maid at Styles.

SETTING
Everything takes place in England in the beginning of the 20th century. Then was World War I.
LANGUAGE and STYLE
Sentences were quite long and quite complicated.
Language was very difficult, because it’s a very old book, very hard to understand. It was hard to read. Plot was confusing.
WHOM DO I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK?
I would recommended this novel to people, who likes crime novels and sentences which are difficult and of course them, who likes Agatha Christie.
SUMMARY
It was Agatha Christie crime novel.
It was written in 1916 and was first published by John Lane in the US in October 1920 and in the UK by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on January 21 1921. The story is told in first person by Hastings, and features many of the elements that, thanks to Christie, have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
Christie's characters are usually well-to-do people.
Sentences were quite long.
Dame Agatha Christie was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays.
Agatha Christie was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon, in England in 1890, the youngest of three children. Christie died on January 12, 1976 in Wallingford, Oxforshire.
The novel is set in England during World War I at Styles Court, an Essex country manor.
Everything takes place in England in the beginning of the 20th century. Then was World War I.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles was adapted as a 103-minute drama and transmitted on ITV in the UK on Sunday September 16, 1990 as a special episode in their series Agatha Christie's Poirot to celebrate the centenary of the author's birth.
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