The Mysterious Affair at Styles

It began with a locked room, a shattered coffee cup, and a wealthy woman dead of strychnine poisoning. Enter Hercule Poirot. In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie introduces readers to her most beloved detective—Hercule Poirot—in a murder mystery that redefined the genre. When Emily Inglethorp is found dead in her manor home under suspicious circumstances, Poirot must use his signature logic, observation, and flair to uncover the killer among a houseful of suspects. This classic whodunit, filled with clever twists and red herrings, is the novel that launched one of the greatest detective series in literary history.