Agatha Christie, She Watched Ep56 “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” (1990) Review

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about scarlet pimpernels, Belgian refugees, blown marriage proposals, and spill vases. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” from the Poirot series starring David Suchet.

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Chapters 0:00 Introduction 5:02 The time this episode is set 8:49 Explaining the scarlet pimpernel joke 13:32 The story opens with Hastings 16:35 Coffee before bedtime, are you crazy? 17:15 Hastings goes to Styles 19:56 Why John Inglethorpe hates the interloper 24:48 The link between “Styles” and “Death on the Nile” and “Roger Ackroyd” 31:48 Poirot investigates and his wonderful toys 35:44 The importance of the Land Girls Theme music: "Call to Adventure" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/