In the canon
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1920
- Pages
- Pages 290
Agatha Christie spent the war counting out poisons in a Torquay hospital dispensary, and she learned exactly how strychnine kills. That knowledge runs through her first novel like a cold vein.
"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically. "You cannot mix up sentiment and reason."
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