Tuesday, September 3, 2019

October 2019 Book Selection


Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on October 1, 2019. This month we will be reading a classic novel from the “Golden Age of Mystery”, Agatha Christie’s Mysterious Affair at Styles. This is the first Hercule Poirot novel.
The summary from the publisher’s website is “Agatha Christie’s debut novel was the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective. A refugee of the Great War, Poirot is settling in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactress, 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 earned Agatha Christie her well-deserved reputation as the queen of mystery.”
We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 7:00pm.