Tajemnicza historia w Styles
Debiutancka powieść Agaty Christie i zarazem pierwsza, w której pojawia się postać jej najbardziej lubianego detektywa, Herkulesa Poirota. Znajomość z tą wielką postacią kryminalistyki zawieramy, gdy wraz z kapitanem Hastingsem udajemy się do posiadłości Styles. W trakcie jego pobytu zostaje...
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Debiutancka powieść Agaty Christie i zarazem pierwsza, w której pojawia się postać jej najbardziej lubianego detektywa, Herkulesa Poirota. Znajomość z tą wielką postacią kryminalistyki zawieramy, gdy wraz z kapitanem Hastingsem udajemy się do posiadłości Styles. W trakcie jego pobytu zostaje otruta właścicielka Styles, Emilia Inglethrop. Rodzina, przekonana, że zamordował ją o 20 lat młodszy mąż, postanawia wezwać Herkulesa Poirota.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788324588633
Publish date: 2009
Publisher: Wydawnicwo Dolnośląskie
Pages no: 206
Edition language: Polski
Series: Hercule Poirot (#1)
This was fun! Poirot seemed awfully subdued at first, but before long he was back to primping and excitedly twisting his mustaches. Lots of misdirection, and I suspected every single character at one time, and was *still* surprised at whodunnit. But it was not a cheat! Only 2 complaints: one is that...
Christie starts not with a crime but with people—the narrator, Hastings, and his friendship with John Cavendish. Each person she introduces is vivid, whether likeable or not, eccentric or conventional, and enough of the characters are likeable that she makes sure the reader cares what happens. There...
Now more than 100 years old, "The Mysterious Affair At Styles" still feels modern, partly because of its playful tone and partly because it redefined the whodunnit. I read my first Agatha Christie book two years ago, starting at the wrong end of both Christie's and Poirot's career with "Elephants...
My introduction to the mystery genre came not in the form of a traditional novel, but a visual novel called Umineko. A rather large part of Umineko centers around a murder mystery sometimes involving a locked-room. I read somewhere that the said VN draws a lot of inspiration from Agatha Christie's A...
This was my last read of 2017 and my first ever Agatha Christie. Loved it!
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