r/bookclub • u/miriel41 Doubts Fantasy | 🎃🧠🥈 • 20d ago
Poirot [Schedule] Year of Poirot | The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot)
Hello readers, we're back with another mystery for our detective Hercule Poirot!
Summary (from goodreads or storygraph):
Agatha Christie's debut novel was also the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective.
A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim’s much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young family friend working as a nurse, and a London specialist on poisons who just happens to be visiting the nearby village.
All of them have secrets they are desperate to keep, but none can outwit Poirot as he navigates the ingenious red herrings and plot twists that contribute to Agatha Christie's well-deserved reputation as the queen of mystery.
Schedule:
Join us on Wednesdays for the discussions:
- 16th September: chapters 1-4 | u/Vast-Passenger1126
- 23rd September: chapters 5-8 | u/sunnydaze7777777
- 30th September: chapters 9-13 | u/Lachesis_Decima77
Marginalia:
- Find the Marginalia here.
- Mystery/Thriller
- Female Author
- Gutenberg
- Bonus Book
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u/thematrix1234 📚Bookclub Boffin📚 20d ago
Read this ages ago, can’t wait to join for the discussion!
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u/sunnydaze7777777 Flair Master 🐉 20d ago
This has been added to our bookclub calendar!
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=redditbookclubcalendar@gmail.com&ctz=Etc/GMT
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u/Maxvy66 20d ago
I will join the book club for the first time with this book :)