The Secret Adversary

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel written at the height of World War I, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head on January 21, 1921.

Styles was Christie’s first published novel. It featured Hercule Poirot, Inspector Japp and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee from the Great War, settles in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him in his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her house. When the woman is murdered, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery.

The Murder on the Links was first published in both the United Kingdom and the United States in 1923. In this complex novel full of surprises, one of the most recognized characters of the famous writer Agatha Christie, the detective Hercule Poirot, is present. In addition to him, there is also Hastings, his faithful friend, who is the narrator of the story.

The story unfolds when Poirot receives a letter in which Mr. Renauld, fearing that his life is in danger, asks the Belgian detective to visit him in France and thus lend him his help. What Poirot does not expect is that one night before his arrival Renauld is murdered.

Thanks to its ingenious plot and numerous twists and turns, this work is ideal for fans of the detective and crime genre. In which the reader will have to be very astute to discover who the criminal is before the final part of the novel has been unraveled.

The Man in the Brown Suit is a mystery novel first published in the United Kingdom on August 22, 1924. This novel set in South Africa narrates the adventures of Anne Beddingfeld, daughter of a famous archaeologist (Professor Beddingfeld), who also witnesses the death of a man in a subway station.

She also becomes embroiled in a plot involving criminals, assassins and political affairs. Anna herself sets out to discover the identity of the head of a group of diamond thieves.

In this novel makes his first appearance Colonel Race, who is a character that later appears in other works by the author, such as Death on the Nile and Cards on the Table. Race is a wealthy man who works for the British government as a spy or detective.

The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction, first published in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head in June 1925, and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company that same year.

The book features the characters of Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen Bundle Brent.

At the request of George Lomax, Lord Caterham reluctantly agrees to host a weekend party at his house, Chimneys. A murder takes place at the house, setting off a week of fast-paced events with the police among the guests.

The Big Four is a detective fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom by the publisher William Collins & Sons on January 27, 1927, and in the second half of the same year in the United States by the publisher Dodd, Mead and Company.

In this book by the English author, Poirot, the greatest detective of all times (according to his own words), wants to think of nothing else but destroying the secret organization of The Big Four.