The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Christie's first published novel written during World War I (1916), during which she served as a nurse. It was published in the United States in 1920. Her crime story introduces her long-time character, a Belgian officer with a twirly mustache and egg-shaped head, Inspector Hercule Poirot, (who would later become Chief Inspector). Christie's novel was one of the first published paperbacks in 1935 by Penguin Books. Her novel is featured in our collections of Detective Novels and WWI Books.
Chapter II. The 16th and 17th of July
Chapter III. The Night of the Tragedy
Chapter IV. Poirot Investigates
Chapter V. "It isn't Strychnine, is it?"
Chapter VII. Poirot Pays His Debts
Chapter VIII. Fresh Suspicions
Chapter XI. The Case for the Prosecution