O Misterioso Caso de Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (O Misterioso Caso de Styles, Brasil ou A Primeira Investigação de Poirot, Portugal) é um romance policial de Agatha Christie, publicado em 1920. Este é o primeiro livro da autora e também o primeiro a ter como protagonista o detective belga Hercule Poirot, aqui ajudado pelo seu amigo, Capitão Hastings.

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No meio da noite, a rica proprietária da mansão Styles é encontrada morta na sua cama, aparentemente vítima de um ataque cardíaco. As portas do quarto estavam trancadas por dentro e tudo indicava tratar-se de morte natural. Mas o médico da família levanta uma suspeita: assassinato por envenenamento. Todos os hóspedes da velha mansão, inclusive seu 2° esposo e seus enteados John e Lawrence tinham motivos para matar a Sra. Inglethorp e nenhum deles possui um álibi convincente.

Para solucionar o crime entra em ação o detetive Hercule Poirot e seu fiel amigo capitão Arthur Hastings, que fazem as suas estréias neste intrigante caso.

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Detectives: Hercule Poirot • Miss Marple • Tommy e Tuppence Beresford • Ariadne Oliver • Arthur Hastings • Superintendente Battle • Chief Inspector Japp • Parker Pyne Romances: The Mysterious Affair at Styles • The Secret Adversary • Murder on the Links • The Man in the Brown Suit • The Secret of Chimneys • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • The Big Four • The Mystery of the Blue Train • The Seven Dials Mystery • The Murder at the Vicarage • The Sittaford Mystery • Peril at End House • Lord Edgware Dies • Murder on the Orient Express • Three Act Tragedy • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? • Death in the Clouds • The A.B.C. Murders • Murder in Mesopotamia • Cards on the Table • Death on the Nile • Dumb Witness • Appointment with Death • And Then There Were None • Murder is Easy • Hercule Poirot's Christmas • Sad Cypress • Evil Under the Sun • N or M? • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe • The Body in the Library • Five Little Pigs • The Moving Finger • Towards Zero • Sparkling Cyanide • Death Comes as the End • The Hollow • Taken at the Flood • Crooked House • A Murder is Announced • They Came to Baghdad • Mrs McGinty's Dead • They Do It with Mirrors • A Pocket Full of Rye • After the Funeral • Hickory Dickory Dock • Destination Unknown • Dead Man's Folly • 4.50 from Paddington • Ordeal by Innocence • Cat Among the Pigeons • The Pale Horse • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side • The Clocks • A Caribbean Mystery • At Bertram's Hotel • Third Girl • Endless Night • By the Pricking of My Thumbs • Hallowe'en Party • Passenger to Frankfurt • Nemesis • Elephants Can Remember • Postern of Fate • Curtain • Sleeping Murder como Mary Westmacott: Giant's Bread • Unfinished Portrait • Absent in the Spring • The Rose and the Yew Tree • A Daughter's a Daughter • The Burden Colectâneas de Contos: Poirot Investigates • Partners in Crime • The Mysterious Mr. Quin • The Hound of Death • The Thirteen Problems • Parker Pyne investigates • The Listerdale Mystery • Murder in the Mews • The Regatta Mystery • The Labours of Hercules • Poirot's Early Cases Peças de Teatro: Akhnaton • The Mousetrap • Witness for the Prosecution • Verdict • Rule of Three • Spider's web • The unexpected guest • Black coffee • Fiddlers Three

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