Paul reviewed The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the …
Enjoyable but dated
3 stars
Enjoyable and I didn’t fully pick up on all the clues or guess the identity of the culprit (unlike The Mousetrap). The general story of the book has aged well, but some of the dialogue has not - characters make casual racist, sexist and antisemitic remarks, which I don’t think would be the case if this book was written today.