"You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely."
― Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written by British writer Agatha Christie, is a detective novel that encompasses a classic mystery.
Styles Courtis the Cavendish family's ancestral home, inherited by Emily Inglethorp upon her late husband, Mr. Cavendish's demise.
In Style resides Emily and her new husband who's much younger than her, Alfred Inglethorp; her stepsons from her late husband's previous marriage, John and Lawrence Cavendish; John's wife, Mary Cavendish; Cynthia Murdoch, the daughter of a deceased family friend; Evelyn Howard, Emily's companion; and Lieutenant Hastings, a houseguest and the narrator of the story.
One day, a dead body was found in this manner- it was the wealthy mistress of Styles Court, Emily Inglethorp's.
Emily's death was traceable to a substance called strychnine. As an elderly lady, Emily has to take regular medications and strychnine can be found as an ingredient in her sleeping powder.
Was Emily's sudden death caused by an accident, a suicide, or a murder?
That's what Hercule Poirot- the brilliant and eccentric detective, needs to find out. He steps out of retirement at Lieutenant Hastings' request.
Join Poirot needs to uncover the truth of Emily's death. For that, he has to investigate Emily's fortune-hunting new spouse, her aimless stepsons, her private doctor, and her hired companion. Half-dozen suspects, most of whom are hiding something about themselves, and numerous reasons our master detective has to look deep into.
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