Hercule Poirot #1
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Detective Chief Inspector James Japp
Detective Chief Inspector James Japp (later Assistant Commissioner Japp) is a fictional character who appears in several of Agatha Christies novels featuring Hercule Poirot.Japps career in the Poirot novels extends into the 1930s but, like Has...
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John Cavendish
John is Emilys step-son by her first marriage. He is Hastings friend and invites him to spend his convalescence from a war wound at Styles.more...
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Emily Inglethorp
Mrs. Inglethorp is elderly and the woman of the house at Styles Court, which she owns. Her new husband is Alfred, about 20 years her junior. She is John and Lawrence Cavendishs step-mother by her first marriage, their father having died.more...
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Alfred Inglethorp
Mr. Inglethorp is married to Emily, her second husband. He stands to inherit most of her estate if she dies. Most members of the family and household consider him a fortune hunter!...
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Cynthia Murdoch
Cynthia lives at Styles; she is the daughter of a family friend who passed away. She works in the nearby hospital pharmacy....
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Mary Cavendish
Mary Cavendish is Johns wife.more...
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Evelyn Howard
In Christies Mysterious Affair at Styles. Evelyn Howard is the long-time friend of Emily Inglethorp. She dislikes Emilys new and younger husband Alfred.more...
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Lawrence Cavendish
Lawrence Cavendish is Johns younger brother, and the step-son of Emily Inglethorp by her first marriage.more...
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Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot is one of Agatha Christies most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era. Poirots name was derived from two other fictional detectives ...
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Dorcas (the Mysterious Affair At Styles)
Dorcas is Emily Inglethorps long-serving maid.more...
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Arthur Hastings
Captain Arthur J. M. Hastings, OBE, is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie as the companion-chronicler and best friend of the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. He is first introduced in Christies 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Sty...
