The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie.
Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is sett.
It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings.
It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane\'s UK company) on 21 January 1921.
Styles was Christie\'s first published novel.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie