Poirot's first appearance was in The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( published 1920 ) and his last in Curtain ( published 1975, the year before Christie died ).

Poirot had been forcibly retired from the Belgian police force prior to the time he met Hastings in 1916 as a refugee on the case retold in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles ), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book ( Curtain ), where he visits Styles once again before his death.

* Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( 1920 ) introduces Hercule Poirot.

* Cynthia Murdoch, character in Agatha Christie's 1916 mystery novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Beatie Edney appeared in 1990 as Mary Cavendish in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and 21 years later as Beryl Hemmings in The Clocks ( 2011 ).

* Agatha Christie publishes her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introducing the long-running character detective, Hercule Poirot.

* Agatha Christie — The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( first Hercule Poirot mystery )

The result is that, in her latest book, we note qualities of humour, composition and subtlety which we would have thought beyond the reach of the writer of The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie.

< p > In general The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a considerable achievement for a first-off author.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles was adapted as a 103-minute drama and transmitted on ITV in the UK on Sunday September 16, 1990 as a special episode in their series Agatha Christie's Poirot to celebrate the centenary of the author's birth.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles later made publishing history by being one of the first ten books to be published by Penguin Books when they were launched on July 30, 1935.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the only first edition of Christie's to be published by The Bodley Head, which carried such a blurb on its dustwrapper.

* Czech: Záhada na zámku Styles ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles )

* Croatian: Misteriozna Afera u Stylesu ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles )

* French: La Mystérieuse Affaire de Styles ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles )

* Hungarian: A titokzatos stylesi eset ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles )

* Japanese: スタイルズ荘の怪事件 ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles )

* Polish: Tajemnicza historia w Styles ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles )

* Portuguese: O Misterioso Caso de Styles ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles )

* Russian: Таинственное происшествие в Стайлз (= Tainstvennoe proisshestvie v Staylz, The Mysterious Affairs at Styles ), Загадочное происшествие в Стайлзе (= Zagadochnoe proisshestvie v Staylze, The Mysterious Affair at Styles )

* Iceman appears in the episode of The Super Hero Squad Show titled " Mysterious Mayhem at Mutant Academy " with Shawn Ashmore reprising his role as the character from the live action X-Men movies.

Another episode, " The Mysterious Ticking Noise ", shows Snape, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore being killed by a pipe bomb placed by Voldemort inside a turducken ; the episode being the seventeenth most viewed video of all time as of 2008 and the winner for " Best Comedy " of the year 2007 at YouTube.

*" Mysterious Death of Cleopatra " at the Discovery Channel

* Cailleach Bheur-brief entry at Mysterious Britain

* German: Das fehlende Glied in der Kette ( The missing link in the chain ), first edition in 1929: Das geheimnisvolle Verbrechen in Styles ( The Mysterious Crime at Styles )

M. Poirot, the hero of The Mysterious Affair at Stiles and other brilliant pieces of detective deduction, comes out of his temporary retirement like a giant refreshed, to undertake the investigation of a peculiarly brutal and mysterious murder.

He is first introduced in her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles and appears in many subsequent Poirot stories and novels, generally as the narrator.

Similarly to his friend Poirot, Hastings ' life and background before 1916 are pure estimation though the reader is able to pinpoint Hastings ' approximate birth year as 1886 as he mentions that John Cavendish was ' a good fifteen years senior ' though hardly looking ' his forty-five years ' in the first chapter of The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

In two of the books in which he appears — The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The ABC Murders — Hastings plays a prominent role in the resolution of the mystery, with a casual observation he makes at one point in the novel leading Poirot to realise the guilty party: By mentioning that Poirot had to straighten some spill holders and ornaments in Styles, he prompts Poirot to realise that someone had moved them, thus allowing Poirot to discover a crucial piece of evidence, and when he suggests that an incorrectly addressed letter revealing the latest crime in ABC Murders was addressed that way on purpose, Poirot realises that the letter had indeed been wrongly addressed deliberately so that it would not be received until after the murderer had committed his crime, revealing that the murderer had attached greater importance to that particular murder, and wanted to be certain that it was committed.

Dupin had considerable impact on the Agatha Christie character Hercule Poirot, first introduced in The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( 1920 ).

Not only does the novel return the characters to the setting of her first, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, but it reunites Poirot and Hastings, who had not appeared together since Dumb Witness in 1937.

In Act 2, Chapter 1 Poirot makes a hint to The Mysterious Affair at Styles while talking to Satterthwaite.

* In chapter 18 of the novel, Poirot gives a list of murderers from previous cases of his, more precisely The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ( 1926 ), Death in the Clouds ( 1935 ), The Mystery of the Blue Train ( 1928 ) and The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( 1920 ).

After Mary has gone Poirot goes out and Hastings receives a visit from Lady Yardly ( she was advised to visit Poirot by her friend Mary Cavendish, who appears in The Mysterious Affair at Styles ).

Christie wrote them following a suggestion from its editor, Bruce Ingram, who had been impressed with the character of Poirot in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Christie wrote them following a suggestion from its editor, Bruce Ingram, who had been impressed with the character of Poirot in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

* German: Poirots erste Fälle ( Poirot's First Cases ) Mord auf dem Siegesball ( Murder at the Victory Ball ) Köchin gesucht ( Cook Wanted ) Die mysteriöse Angelegenheit in Cornwall ( The Mysterious Case in Cornwall ) Poirot und der Kidnapper ( Poirot and the Kidnapper ) Ein Indiz zuviel ( One Evidence Too Much ) Die Abenteuer des Kreuzkönigs ( The Adventure of the King of Clubs ) Das Erbe der Familie Lemesurier ( The Inheritance of the Lemesurier Family ) Die verlorene Mine ( The Lost Mine ) Das Geheimnis des Plymouth-Express ( The Secret of the Plymouth-Express ) Die Pralinenschachtel ( The Chocolate Box ) Die U-Boot-Pläne ( The Submarine Plans ) Tod im dritten Stock ( Death in the Third Floor ) Die Doppelsünde ( The Double Sin ) Stille vor dem Sturm ( The Calm Before a Storm ) Das Wespennest ( The Wasp's Nest ) Poirot geht stehlen ( Poirot Goes Thieving ) Eine Tür fällt ins Schloss ( A Door Falls Shut ) Der verräterische Garten ( The Taletelling Garden )

The one critic who was not so keen on the book was Christie's publisher, John Lane, who had wanted her to write another detective novel along the lines of The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

With The Mysterious Affair at Styles and this volume to her credit ( to say nothing of others ) Miss Christie must be reckoned in the first rank of the detective story writers.