I've read a book by Agatha Christie called ”The mysterious affair at Styles. My choice was based upon the fact that I wanted to read something genuinely English that would not take up a huge amount of my time by being five hundred pages in length. What I discovered by reading Agatha Christie was that good authors do not need more than a few hundred pages to create something ingenious. This book was only two hundred and four pages and still had all the necessary elements of a good book.
Briefly the book is about a murder taking place at an estate called Styles and a detective called Hercule Poirot is summoned to investigate. Many of the books about Hercule Poirot has become TV versions and one of my main goal was to find out whether the character of Hercule Poirot pictured on TV matched the one described in the books.
I found out that they did not match. By the influence of the TV version I had discovered Hercule Poirot to be a pompous and intelligent but rather silly character. In the book on the other hand, he is pictured in a more serious way and there is not question about his brilliance. Among the other characters the stupidity is widely spread no matter if it is the TV version or the book you concider. I think it is a pity that the difference between the intelligence of Hercule Poirot and the stupidity of the rest of the characters constitutes such extremes. It makes the book as well as the TV version unrealistic. This is the only thing I don't like about the book.
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