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The Mysterious Affair At Styles

AuthorAgatha Christie

NarratorHugh Fraser

SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 1

Duration5h 57m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Cosy Crime

PublisherW.F. Howes

VersionUnabridged

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Agatha Christie's first ever murder mystery. After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement...

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