Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The library has recently added several Christie books I've never read, which is the perfect excuse to check out a classic mystery! This is the first book featuring Inspector Poirot; it centers on the death of a rich woman by poisoning. The narrator is a visitor to the house who knows Poirot, who happens to be staying in this small British town for whatever reason, so calls him in to help solve the crime. I found the narrative voice amusing, especially regarding his perpetual certainty that he knows better than Poirot (when, of course, the reader knows just how wrong he is). I did find the solution to be a bit overly complicated and silly, but this was still an entertaining read. B/B+.
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I will post a general warning here that there are some racist terms thrown about casually that were typical in Christie's day, and there is some straight-up anti-Semitism as well.
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