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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Chapter 10

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Agatha Christie’s first published novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Donate to Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

First, sweet tarts dare to combine sweet and tart, but they didn't stop there.

0:06.0

Now they've combined soft and bouncy to bring you new sweet tarts, gummy fruity splits.

0:12.0

A uniquely delicious dual-sided gummy with one side that's sweet, and the other side that's tart.

0:19.0

But entirely smooth and squishy.

0:22.0

A powerfully perfect combo.

0:24.0

Sweet tarts dare to combine.

0:30.0

To my extreme annoyance, Poirot was not in, and the old Belgian who answered my knock informed me that he believed he'd gone to London.

0:42.0

I was dumbfounded.

0:44.0

What on earth could Poirot be doing in London?

0:47.0

Was it a sudden decision on his part, or had he already made up his mind when he parted from me a few hours earlier?

0:55.0

I retraced my steps to styles and some annoyance. With Poirot away, I was uncertain how to act.

1:02.0

Had he foreseen this arrest? Had he not, and all probability been the cause of it?

1:07.0

Those questions I could not resolve.

1:10.0

But in the meantime, what was I to do?

1:13.0

Should I announce the arrest openly at styles, or not?

1:17.0

Though I did not acknowledge it to myself, the thought of Mary Cavendish was weighing on me.

1:23.0

Would it not be a terrible shock to her? For the moment I set aside utterly any suspicions of her.

1:30.0

She could not be implicated, otherwise I should have heard some hint of it.

1:35.0

Of course, there is no possibility of being able permanently to conceal Dr. Bauer's scenes arrest from her, who would be announced in every newspaper on the morrow.

1:45.0

Still, I shrank from blurting it out. If only Poirot had been accessible, I could have asked his advice.

1:53.0

What possessed him to go posting off to London in this unaccountable way?

1:59.0

In spite of myself, my opinion if his sagacity was a measurably heightened.

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