Agatha Christie's first novel, introduces the characters of Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Arthur Hastings. In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his technique to prove who really killed Emily.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Poirot, Hercule
Poirot, Hercule
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Belgians-- England, Fiction.
Private investigators-- England, Fiction.
Belgians.
Private investigators.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
England.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
823/
.
912
Edition
21
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PR6005
.
H66
Book number
M9
1991x
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Christie, Agatha,1890-1976.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Berkely Books.
Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)