The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
Taste attributes: mysterydetectivecrimehistoricalunsavouryrealisticintricatelinearenclosedsolving the riddle/not as it seemsfighting evil
Boxlist takeA smart mystery, small-scale rather than epic. Best if you like puzzles over plain sailing.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: intricate · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary manor of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed old aunt Emily, she of a sizeable fortune, to a suspicious younger man, Alfred Inglethorp, twenty years her junior.
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- Agatha Christie
- Published
- 1920
- Pages
- 204
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