Not only that, one of the characters we meet, Cynthia Murdoch is just as Christie was then, working in a dispensary and surrounded by poisons. Working in the dispensary at that point, ‘it was natural that death by poison should be the method’ (Christie, An Autobiography, p. When she began thinking about and planning it, it was the setting she was in then that influenced quite a bit. I revisited the book in celebration earlier in October (though I only got down to writing my thoughts/review now).Īgatha Christie began writing this one during the First World War when she was part of the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment), and working in a dispensary her sister Madge had challenged her to write a detective story earlier. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie’s first detective novel, which also introduced us to one of her most famous characters, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot first appeared in October 1920, and thus turned 100 this year.
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