The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. Short summary

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A murder occurs in Stiles Court, where Captain Hastings has come to stay. The mistress of the manor has been poisoned. The famous detective Hercule Poirot undertakes to investigate the crime.

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The first novel in the series «Hercule Poirot». The novel is set in the English manor of Stiles Court. The estate after the death of her husband inherited Emily Cavendish. Soon the widow decided to get married. Her betrothed is Alfred Inglethorpe, a philanderer and alfonz in the opinion of many.

But one day Emily is found dead in her own bed of strychnine poisoning and in the end the widow utters the name of her new husband. Everyone on the estate falls under suspicion.

Officer Hastings, who was visiting the manor at the time, meets his old friend Hercule Poirot and asks for his help in investigating this mysterious incident. After a thorough investigation, Poirot concludes that the husband of the deceased is to blame for the murder after all. The detective forces Inglethorpe to confess to what he has done. He had an affair with his second cousin Evelyn Howard, who helped his lover to poison his wife. Evelyn added a special reagent to Emily’s medicine, which caused the poisoning.