_jessicagolden 's review for:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

4.25

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I liked this book! Hercule Poirot is Agatha Christie’s take on Sherlock Holmes, complete with a useful idiot of a narrator who’s been sent home from war due to injury and now pals around with an incredible detective to pass the time (although Watson was never quite so hopelessly out of the loop as poor Hastings). 

There is no end of viable suspects in this one, and Christie did have me fooled about the culprit! I much prefer this series to Miss Marple. Probably because if the person who solves the crime is a man, no one needs to take the time to explain why it’s actually an unattractive quality for someone so old and unmarried to be so smart and observant. 🫠