Books with title Agatha Christie: Writer of Mystery

This rigorously crafted ebook "Agatha Christie's Mystery Books: The Mysterious Affair at Styles & The Secret Adversary " is formatted for your Kindle with a practical and detailed table of contents.The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. The Mysterious Affair at Styles was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and The Mysterious Affair at Styles first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and The Mysterious Affair at Styles published in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921. The US edition of The Mysterious Affair at Styles retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition of The Mysterious Affair at Styles at seven shillings and sixpence.The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Agatha Christie's first published novel. At "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery. This is also the setting of Curtain, Poirot's last case.The book The Mysterious Affair at Styles includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will. The true first publication of the novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles was as a weekly serial in the The Times, including the maps of the house and other illustrations included in the book. This novel of The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie was one of the first ten books published by Penguin Books when it began in 1935.The Mysterious Affair at Styles was This first mystery novel by Agatha Christie was well received by reviewers. An analysis in 1990 was positive about the plot, considered the novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles one of the few by Agatha Christie that is well-anchored in time and place, a story that knows it describes the end of an era, and mentions that the plot is clever. Agatha Christie had not mastered cleverness in her first novel of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, as "too many clues tend to cancel each other out"; this was judged a difficulty "which Conan Doyle never satisfactorily overcame, but which Agatha Christie would.""The Secret Adversary" is the second published detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie,The Secret Adversary first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and The Secret Adversary published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The UK edition of The Secret Adversary retailed at seven shillings and sixpence and the US edition of The Secret Adversary at $1.75.The Secret Adversary introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Agatha Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career. At The Secret Adversary The Great War is over, and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley meet and agree to start their own business as The Young Adventurers. They are hired for a job that leads them both to many dangerous situations, meeting allies as well, including an American millionaire in search of his cousin. And that is the summary of The Secret AdversaryReviews were generally positive on this Book The Secret Adversary, which manages to keep the identity of the arch-criminal secret to the very end