The Mysterious Affair at Styles continues, as Poirot does the traditional thing and gathers everyone together.
One of the things that it’s difficult for most readers to remember is that, even if you think of the mystery genre as beginning with Poe, it was almost a hundred years old by the beginning of the “Golden Age” of mysteries. It’s as if pulp adventure had never died out, and then suddenly a new generation of pulp adventure writers were to emerge in force today, with huge literary and genre ambitions.
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Maria Lectrix 
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