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 ).

In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot operates as a fairly conventional, clue-based detective, depending on logic, which is represented in his vocabulary by two common phrases: his use of " the little grey cells " and " order and method ".

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 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 )

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg ( New York: Vintage Books, 1994 )

* The subject was also featured on an episode of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World entitled " Strange Skies ", originally broadcast on November 18, 1980.

Daffy starred in the 3-D short Daffy's Rhapsody with Elmer Fudd that was originally set to premiere before Happy Feet Two but instead it debuted prior to Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

It appears in the short Daffy Rhapsody featuring Daffy and Elmer that was shown prior to Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

" She also appeared in Mysterious Mr. Parkes, which was a French-language version of Slightly Scarlet for the European market, although it was also screened in the United States.

He was honored as an ancestor of the Tang imperial family, and was granted the title Táishāng xuānyuán huángdì, meaning " Supreme Mysterious and Primordial Emperor ".

By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program The Mysterious Traveler.

A one-shot Shadow issue The Shadow and the Mysterious Three was also published by Dark Horse in 1994, again written by Joel Goss and Michael Kaluta, with Stan Manoukian and Vince Roucher taking over the illustration duties but working over Kaluta's layouts.

* White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd ( TV 1991 ) – Luciano was portrayed by Robert Davi

The anti-religious The Mysterious Stranger was published in 1916.

He claims to have no interest in the affairs of the world above, but occasionally intervenes to aid the oppressed, such as by giving salvaged treasure to Cretans who are revolting against their Turkish rulers and by saving ( both physically and financially ) a Ceylonese or Tamil pearl hunter who was the unfortunate victim of a diving accident, or by saving the castaways from drowning in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and covertly watching over the castaways in The Mysterious Island.

The Mysterious Island was written in 1874 but is set immediately after the American Civil War, from 1865 to 1867.

A biography, Fever: Little Willie John ; A Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul, written by Susan Whitall with Kevin John ( another son of Little Willie John ) was released in 2011 by Titan Books.

His final contribution to the band was to play bass on a single track which appeared on the band's next album Mysterious Traveller (" American Tango ", which, ironically, he'd co-written with Zawinul ).

Weather Report's breakout album was 1974's Mysterious Traveller, which also featured the debut of new drummer Ishmail Wilburn ( although on the title track and " Nubian Sundance " his playing was doubled by that of Skip Hadden ).

Mysterious Traveller was the second of Weather Report's albums to win Down Beat's " Album of the Year " award and the first in their unprecedented run of four such consecutive awards.

* Weather Report's 1974 Mysterious Traveller LP with cover painting of a comet over Madagascar was named after Kohoutek.