Essex, Inglaterra. La millonaria Emily Inglethorp amanece muerta en su habitación sin indicio alguno de violencia. Aunque la policía descarta que se trate de un asesinato, demasiadas rivalidades en la vieja mansión propiedad de la fallecida hacen pensar en un posible caso de envenenamiento que podría haber pasado desapercibido. Cuando el detective Hércules Poirot llega para encargarse de la investigación, se encuentra frente a frente con la avaricia, los celos, las tensiones y la ambición de una familia que aspira a heredar una fortuna en dinero y propiedades. Un marido …
Essex, Inglaterra. La millonaria Emily Inglethorp amanece muerta en su habitación sin indicio alguno de violencia. Aunque la policía descarta que se trate de un asesinato, demasiadas rivalidades en la vieja mansión propiedad de la fallecida hacen pensar en un posible caso de envenenamiento que podría haber pasado desapercibido. Cuando el detective Hércules Poirot llega para encargarse de la investigación, se encuentra frente a frente con la avaricia, los celos, las tensiones y la ambición de una familia que aspira a heredar una fortuna en dinero y propiedades. Un marido infiel, su jovencísima amante, unos hijastros envidiosos, un extraño toxicólogo alemán. Todos parecen sospechosos de haber acabado con la vida de Emily, aunque solo uno de ellos puede ser el asesino. Poirot deberá emplearse a fondo y usar todas sus armas para llegar al fondo de su primer caso literario.
Hardcover, 195 pages
Spanish language
Published Oct. 29, 2010 by RBA Coleccionables, S.A..
Reviews
joelchrono reviewed The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot, #1)
My first novel by Christie, super cool!
4.0 stars
This book was a bit confusing at first with the dozen or so characters that are presented during the beginning chapters. However, I quickly familiarized with them—I still mixed up some of the last names but I knew who was who. It is a simple story in theory: a rich lady with an inheritance, a second husband, two sons and a wife of one, some servants, a doctor, you know the drill.
Honestly, this was very fun to read along someone else, after each chapter we each had our suspects and opinions on the cast, it was as entertaining as the novel itself every time Poirot explained his findings and changed our whole perspective on the events all the way up to the final reveal, which is just amazing.
It is funny and well written, a definite page turner for me, I read the …
This book was a bit confusing at first with the dozen or so characters that are presented during the beginning chapters. However, I quickly familiarized with them—I still mixed up some of the last names but I knew who was who. It is a simple story in theory: a rich lady with an inheritance, a second husband, two sons and a wife of one, some servants, a doctor, you know the drill.
Honestly, this was very fun to read along someone else, after each chapter we each had our suspects and opinions on the cast, it was as entertaining as the novel itself every time Poirot explained his findings and changed our whole perspective on the events all the way up to the final reveal, which is just amazing.
It is funny and well written, a definite page turner for me, I read the last four chapters altogheter because all the revelations and explanations were quite mind-boggling to me—also because isa kept reading ahead, so evil lol.
I recently acquired And Then There Were None, considered to be one of Agatha Christie’s best work, and one of the best selling books of all time, because if this one amazed me, I can’t help but wonder what her best writing would be like. Yes, I have an e-reader but I couldn’t help myself. Good stuff.
I might continue my read of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, just to refresh myself and see the way both fictional detectives work, and have some more fun outside of the Science Fiction genre.