The Murder on the Links was first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in May 1923, and in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in the same year. And, obviously, the order, altered by the crime, is finally re-established. There’s as well a number of red herrings, some surprising twists, and a perfectly rational explanation to which anyone can access, with only the proper interpretation of the clues scattered all along the narrative. The action develops in an isolated environment and there’s a handful of suspects, all of them with something to hide. In fact, The Mysterious Affair at Styles includes all the elements associated with a classic murder mystery novel. Christie became the most representative figure of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Be that as it may, no-one can deny now-a-days the significance of this book. According to different sources, Christie wrote this novel as a result of a bet with her sister, in which she claimed she could write a detective novel where nobody would be able to guess the identity of the murderer. The novel also introduces other Christie’s characters like Hastings and inspector Japp. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie’s debut novel, is also the one in which Hercule Poirot makes his first appearance. The Mysterious Affair at Styles was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane’s UK company) on 21 January 1921.(Source: Based in part on an articles from Wikipedia, with additions/modifications from a variety of other sources) To my knowledge it’s difficult to mention an exact number since some were later expanded into other stories or re-written. Since his first onset in The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920, Hercule Poirot has featured in 33 novels and an unspecified number of short stories and novellas by Agatha Christie. If you have any suggestions to improve it, please feel free to add your views in a comment. It may content several errors, since it is also a work in progress, but I believe it may be of interest to some regular or sporadic readers of this blog. This post was intended as a private note.
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