And Then There Were 66: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - Part 1

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Episode 1! In which we tackle Agatha Christie's first published novel--and first Poirot novel--The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Deep-dive with us as we try to figure out how Christie crafted this cunning "puzzle mystery," and why one woman would regularly ingest coffee, cocoa, tonic, and sleeping powders all in one night.... Come for the kissing cousins, stay for the discussion of Holmes/Watson homage (a.k.a. fan-fic).

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0:25.0	Welcome to episode one of All About Agatha Christie's very first published novel,
0:35.0	The Mysterious Affair at Stiles.
0:37.0	I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:39.0	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:40.0	We're going to start off with a really quick plot synopsis, emphasis on the really and the quick.
0:45.0	I am not going to take more than two minutes to get through this, but it's important that we know the facts.
0:52.0	Okay, here goes.
0:54.0	Three, two, one.
0:56.0	It's July in 1916 and Arthur Hastings, injured in World War I, runs into an old friend,
1:02.0	John Cavendish, who invites him to his home a big estate in Essex called
1:05.8	Stiles. The lady of the house at Stiles is John's stepmother Emily Inglethorp
1:10.8	who recently remarried a much younger man named Alfred.
1:14.0	Everybody pretty much hates Alfred, especially Mrs. Inglethorpe's companion, Evelyn Howard, who is actually
1:19.4	Alfred's cousin.
1:21.3	Also at Stiles, John's somewhat estranged wife Mary, John's gloomy younger brother Lawrence,
1:26.8	a rather whiny young ward of Mrs. Inglethorps named Cynthia, a sketchy-seeming London doctor
1:31.7	named Bowersstein, and a group of Belgian refugees from the war including
1:35.8	one Erkeel Poirot, a retired police detective.
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