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“Keep an eye on her, Mr. Hastings. My poor Emily. They are sharks – all of them.”

In the summer of 1917, Captain Hastings, in his thirties, finds himself at Styles Court in Essex at the invitation of his friend John Cavendish, to spend a health leave after being discharged from the army. There is tension in the house. The reason is the recent marriage of John's widowed stepmother Emily to Alfred Inglethorp, who is at least twenty years younger. Both John and his brother Lawrence are dependent on their mother's allowance, but since she got married, their financial situation has started to complicate... At the post office in the village, Captain Hastings nearly collides with an older, small Belgian man. What a reunion! A perfectly groomed man of distinctive appearance – with an egg-shaped head and a waxed mustache – was once one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police. After the fateful night when Mrs. Cavendish writhes in bed in terrible convulsions, it is none other than Hercule Poirot whom the family calls upon to investigate her death.

The queen of detectives wrote her first novel as early as 1916. It was finally published after the war in 1920, thanks to Bodley Head. The first case of Hercule Poirot, the best detective…