Author: Agatha Christie
Title: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Description: London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1923. First edition. Cloth. The first cheap edition of Agatha Christie's first Poirot novel, a brilliant tale introducing the beloved Belgian detective. The first cheap edition, published two years after the first U.K. publication.'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' is the first of Agatha Christie's novels to feature her Belgian detective - Hercule Poirot. Since his first appearance in 1920, Poirot has gone on to become one of the famous characters in fiction.  With the image of a fragment of the will to page 67, a map of the house to page 42, a plan of Mrs Inglethorp's Bedroom to page 60, A facsimile of a document to page 83.This novel marks the start of an illustrious crime fiction career for Agatha Christie, who was one of the leading authors during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. She became an icon in this genre, with sixty-six novels under her belt.In a facsimile dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the cloth. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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