20 Minutes into the Past: It is mentioned in the second chapter that "the 16th of July fell on a Monday." Using this clue and the fact that Hercule Poirot himself is a war refugee from Belgium, it can be inferred that the story itself, having been published in 1920, takes place in July 1917.This work of fiction contains examples of:
Tropes unique to the ITV adaptation can be found on the page for the TV series. The novel has been adapted by ITV as the final episode for the second season of the Agatha Christie’s Poirot series starring David Suchet as Poirot, and by BBC Radio Four with John Moffat as Poirot. One of only two of her books that have entered the Public Domain they can be read at Project GutenbergĬhristie had dedicated the book to her mother. The novel is an absolutely Fair Play Whodunit if anything, it has an overabundance of clues (as well as an overabundance of red herrings) which would not be seen in Christie’s later works.Ī review from the Pharmaceutical Journal, which applauded “this detective story for dealing with poisons in a knowledgeable way, and not with the nonsense about untraceable substances that so often happens” was Christie’s personal favorite. When Mrs Inglethorp dies, displaying symptoms alarmingly like those of strychnine poisoning, Poirot is asked and agrees to investigate the case. He is a war refugee staying at a village near Styles Court and meets Hastings coincidentally. Poirot is introduced as a retired Belgian detective and an old friend of Hastings’s.
Hastings also meets John’s beautiful but enigmatic wife, Mary Cavendish, his nervous brother, Lawrence Cavendish, the mysterious Doctor Bauerstein, Mrs Inglethorp's companion Evelyn Howard, and her young protégé Cynthia Murdoch. On his arrival there, he meets John’s stepmother Emily, a generous but difficult woman who has recently married Alfred Inglethorp, a man much younger than her. The novel is narrated in first person by Lieutenant Hastings, who, returning invalided from World War I, is invited by his childhood friend John Cavendish at the family manor, Styles Court.
Written (and set) during World War I but first published in 1920. Or was he French? You know the one- that funny little man with the egg-shaped head and the ridiculous moustache. It was the first novel she wrote and the one where that Belgian detective of hers was introduced.
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