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.
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