![]() The academic in me needs to note here that the edition of the novel I’m using is the one that appears The Complete Battles of Hastings, Vol. ![]() The blurb also asserted that, not only had she won the bet, she had also introduced ‘a new type of detective’ in the form of Hercule Poirot. Agatha Christie had wagered that she could write a detective novel in which the reader would be unable to spot the murderer, despite being given exactly the same clues as the detective. ![]() According to the dust jacket of the first edition, the book was the result of a bet. The novel was published in the US in October 1920, and then by Bodley Head in the UK in early 1921. The final instalment of the story included an advert for a full edition, to be published by John Lane in the US. ![]() ![]() It was first published as an eighteen-part serial in The Weekly Times (the colonial edition of The Times) between February and June 1920. The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Agatha Christie’s first novel. ![]()
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