First mention of Poirot detected

Agatha Christie’s books were much in evidence at a Keys (17.5% buyer’s premium) sale of June 7-8, among them a 1921 first of The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Her very first book and one that marked the debut of Hercule Poirot, it was written in response to…

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