The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 7 · 3,170 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Belgians — England — Fiction · Detective and mystery stories · Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) — Fiction · Private investigators — England — Fiction

Words worth knowing: baize · postmark · enigmatical · untamed · obsession · headline · narcotic · undiscovered

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Contents

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided.

Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the whole story.

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