The mysterious affair at Styles
Format:
Video disc
Title:
The mysterious affair at Styles
Other title(s):
Agatha Christie's Poirot. The mysterious affair at styles
ISBN:
9781569384374
Publication Information:
Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, [2000]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Originally broadcast by ITV Sept. 16, 1990.
Based on a novel by Agatha Christie.
Special features include: biographies of Agatha Christie and David Suchet, Poirot trivia, cast filmographies, and Agatha Christie materials.
Contents:
Cavendish reunion -- Poirot appears -- Deadly night -- Chamber searched -- Questionalble will -- Testimonies -- Memorial service -- Hanging matter -- Grand assembly -- Love letter.
Summary:
Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot In the village. When the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Subject(s):
Geographic Term:
Added Uniform Title:
Agatha Christie's Poirot.