The Mysterious Affair at Styles

A country house. A wealthy woman. A household with reasons to be grateful—and reasons to want her dead. Hastings comes to Styles to recover from the war. Then Emily Inglethorp dies, and the comfortable visit becomes a tangle of locked doors, disputed loyalties, and evidence that refuses to mean what it should. Her much younger husband makes an excellent suspect. Several other people would prefer the investigation to stop there. A small Belgian refugee with meticulous habits has other ideas. Poirot’s first case. Hastings is watching everything. That does not mean he is seeing it.