Poirot: The Complete Battles of Hastings ("The Mysterious Affair at Styles", "The Murder on the Links", "The Big Four", and "Peril at End House"): 1 - Softcover

Christie, Agatha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000717117X ISBN 13: 9780007171170

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2004

A brand new Agatha Christie omnibus, featuring four of the eight novels in which Captain Arthur Hastings appears alongside the world-renowned detective, Hercule Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Murder on the Links, The Big Four and Peril at End House.

Captain Arthur Hastings is well-known as Poirot’s trusty sidekick, the perfect foil for the great detective and his ‘little grey cells’. Yet although Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels about her famous detective, only eight of them actually feature Captain Hastings. Considered by many to be some of the very best Christie stories, the distinctive Hastings novels are distinguished by being recounted in the first person, just as Dr Watson wrote for Holmes.

This omnibus volume brings together the first four Poirot and Hastings novels, including the very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the international adventures The Murder on the Links and The Big Four, and the ingenious Cornish mystery Peril at End House.

Review:

‘The actual solution is quite unusually ingenious.’
Times Literary Supplement

‘Agatha Christie never lets you down.’
The Sketch

About the Author:

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 000717117X
• ISBN 13: 9780007171170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672