The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot's First Case

After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death must be consigned to memory.

Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to the rolling country estate of Styles to recuperate from injuries sustained at the Front. It is the last place he expects to encounter murder. Fortunately, he knows a former detective, a Belgian refugee, who has grown bored of retirement...