The Mysterious Affair At Styles

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I started reading Curtain but put it down to re-read this before I dug into Poirot's final case. I know I've read it before but I didn't remember all the characters. And since the opening of Curtain nostalgically mentions many of this book's characters, I thought I would revisit it.

A lovely cozy, though I was not fond of very many of the characters. Including Hastings, who, though he appears in several Christie novels, has never been particularly likable, in my opinion. Though he is designed

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as the perfect foil to highlight Poirot's cleverness, I find him tedious and banal.

I do love the way Christie writes, though. Descriptions like, "Her conversation, I soon found, was couched in the telegraphic style" say so much without having to use very many words.

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