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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie · 1920

296 pages

When wealthy Emily Inglethorp is fatally poisoned at her country estate, the household is sealed off with a killer among the guests. Captain Hastings, home from the war, brings in his old acquaintance Hercule Poirot, a Belgian refugee detective, to work out who could have reached her locked bedroom.

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Locked Room Mystery, Eccentric Detective, Cozy Mystery

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