![]() With impeccable timing, and making his unforgettable debut, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is on the case. Mary-from the heiress’s fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. ![]() For more on the centenary of her first publication, see 100 Years of Agatha Christie stories. With over one billion books sold in English and another billion in over 100 languages, her popularity has never waned last year her English language sales exceeded two million copies. While she was working in a dispensary during World War I, Agatha came up with the idea for the story using her knowledge of poisons.Īnd the rest is literary history, as Agatha conquered the publishing world for more than fifty years, releasing works that defined the genre, including And Then There Were None, the world’s best-selling crime novel.Īgatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was written as the result of a challenge between Agatha and her older sister, who bet that Agatha couldn’t write a detective novel. 2020 marked one hundred years since Christie’s debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was first published.Īs the inaugural Hercule Poirot mystery, the story was serialized in The Times (London) weekly edition from February to June 1920 and later published as a complete novel in the U.S. ![]()
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