"Whose first book, published in 1920, was ""The Mysterious Affair at Styles""?"
The Mysterious Affair at Styles in the US (the other being "The Secret Adversary"). The copyright on the book will not expire in some Western countries before 2047. The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921. "Styles" was Christie's first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp,
The Mysterious Affair at Styles was first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and was not published in the UK by The Bodley Head until the following year. "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" later made publishing history by being one of the first ten books to be published by Penguin Books when they were launched on 30 July 1935. The book was Penguin Number 6. The blurb on the inside flap of the dustwrapper of the first edition reads: This novel was originally written as the result of a bet, that the author, who had previously never written a book,