Tucker Teague<p>This morning I finished reading Agatha Christie's first detective novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles." She wrote it in 1916 when she was 26 and it was published in 1920 in the US, then in 1921 in the UK. This is the novel that introduced the detective Hercule Poirot.</p><p>I thought I had read it in my youth. But now I don't think so. I'm so glad I read it now. What a great mystery. Even at the beginning, Christie was brilliant.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MysteryNovels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MysteryNovels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgathaChristie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgathaChristie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HerculePoirot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HerculePoirot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whodunit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whodunit</span></a></p>