"The Strange Case at Styles Manor" is a first-person narration, and the "I" in the story is Poirot's good friend Captain Hastings, who retired from the war front and went to his friend's home to recuperate at Styles Manor.
Mrs. Inglethorpe, the mistress of the manor, inherited the manor and inheritance from her ex-husband and took charge of the family's finances.
However, this family is not very harmonious. This old lady who is over seventy years old is still in love, and she actually married a distant relative of the housekeeper. Her current husband is not very old, and he is not a decent person, and he is not a decent person.
Not liked by other people in the family.
The family was very unhappy about this, and the housekeeper even decided to leave the house.
Later, the hostess died. She was poisoned in her room, and the three doors in the room were all locked from the inside.
Then Poirot steps in to investigate...
Although this is Poirot's debut, for the cautious readers of this world, they are no strangers to Poirot.
[Guess what I saw? Poirot?]
In the book reviews, some people read it quickly. They commented on this book not long after it was published.
Among the many comments that were "throwing flowers" and "celebrating", this comment stood out.
Poirot's appearance in this book is not as quick as "Murder on the Orient Express" and has to wait for a while, so when most people first read the book, they thought the narrative perspective was the protagonist of the book.
Readers were outraged after seeing this comment.
[Is it true or false, is he an intruder or is he the protagonist of this book? 】
[I can’t accept the random intrusion, I hope it’s still Poirot this time.]
[Will it be the sequel to Murder on the Orient Express? ]
【No more talking, I'll go take a look.】
After some time, most readers have seen Poirot.
[Poirot must be the protagonist, he intervenes in the perspective so forcefully, and it seems that no one can solve the case except him. Hastings is so useless.]
[But it doesn’t look like a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express.]
[It should be a prequel, it should be further back in time.]
[There is no specific time, how can I tell it? 】
【Infer for yourself.】
【ox!】
[It does feel like a prequel. Poirot doesn’t seem to be famous in Murder on the Orient Express.]
【This is true.】
The difference between the Poirot series and the Sherlock Holmes series is that the timeline is relatively vague, and the cases before and after are not particularly closely related.
When watching the Poirot series, you can start from any case in the middle, no order is required.
Just like watching Detective Conan, most cases don't need to look at the past, and Kudo Shinichi doesn't grow up anyway.
Zhang Zhong chose to publish the book at seven or eight o'clock this time, and he also published the entire book at once. The readers were happy, but after feeling happy, most of them had to wear a pair of blackmails on their heads the next day.
eye socket.
One hundred and fifty thousand words is not a short article. No matter how fast you read it, it will take two or three hours. If you read it slowly, one night may not be enough.
But when you read an exciting book, the adrenaline in your body will tell you what it means to be unable to fall asleep. Especially for Zhang Zhong’s loyal fans, they will not be able to close their eyes until they finish reading this book.
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"Watch for a while and then go to bed!"
Countless people hold this idea, but "watch it for a while" often ends up becoming "just finish watching it at dawn".
Duan Qiao's date also fell through. Originally, he was planning to take his girlfriend to see a movie. Recently, a science fiction blockbuster "Galaxy Suicide Squad" was released in the United States. It is said that the scene was so shocking that he even bought the ticket, but his girlfriend caught him.
I don't want to let go of the phone at all.
He sat in the coffee shop with his girlfriend for five hours, and he also finished reading "The Mysterious Case of Starrs Manor".
After reading it, he rubbed his tired eyes and couldn't help but sigh. The fifth-grade vegetable will not disappoint, and "The Mysterious Case of Styles Manor" is still gripping.
Moreover, Duan Qiao also discovered that the cases written by fifth-grade vegetative patients basically have a relatively profound description of human nature. There is complex human nature in each case. These complex human nature are the beginning of everything and the end of everything.
He picked up the cold coffee in front of him, glanced at his girlfriend who was still reading hard with her frown, and couldn't help but smile. After a good date, the two of them actually held their phones face to face and read a novel for a long time, and they couldn't help reading it.
It's still the same novel.
Duan Qiao curled his lips. Fortunately, at least his reading speed was faster than hers.
He looked around again and saw that there were not many customers left in the coffee shop. Fortunately, the coffee shop they chose before was open 24 hours a day. When the two of them were in college, they would occasionally go there with their computers in hand.
It's late at night in this coffee shop.
Speaking of which, something like this has not happened for a long time.
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Pengpeng woke up very early. Zhang Zhong originally set the alarm clock for 6:10. The reason why he set it so early was because the sunrise was around 7 o'clock.
But before Zhang Zhong's alarm clock went off, Pengpeng ran to Zhang Zhong's room.
Zhang Zhong vaguely heard the doorknob ringing and was about to get up to see what was going on. Pengpeng had already climbed onto his bed and crawled into his arms like a kitten.
"Dad, Pengpeng is so hungry."
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It turns out that the girl woke up from hunger.
They ate early last night and watched the sunset after eating.
It has been more than ten hours now, and she must be hungry.
His daughter woke up from hunger, so Zhang Zhong naturally couldn't sleep anymore. He held Pengpeng's little butt in his arms, put on his slippers and headed to the dining room of Qingluo Xiaozhu.
Of course, guests staying at Qingluo Xiaozhu can enjoy free breakfast, and they don’t have to go there themselves. They just need to make a phone call and the waiter will bring it to them.
When he took Pengpeng to the restaurant, it was not time to eat yet, but the restaurant service staff did not dare to neglect and hurriedly asked someone to prepare food for them.
In less than fifteen minutes, two bowls of fragrant pork noodles were brought to the father and daughter.
Zhang Zhong was not very hungry. He held the bowl, blew the noodles cold and then brought them to Peng Peng's mouth.
After eating for a while, Pengpeng picked up the chopsticks by himself.
She is not very proficient in using chopsticks yet, so it is a bit difficult for her to pick up the noodles. But she also has a way. She closes the chopsticks and stirs them into the noodles, and a lump of noodles comes out. She stirs the noodles into cotton.
Looks like candy.
The way she eats noodles reminds Zhang Zhong of monkeys eating noodles. Sun Wukong also ate this way in the 1983 version of the TV series.
Peng Peng ate an astonishing amount. He stirred up a large bowl of noodles and soon found the soup base.
After they had eaten the noodles and the steamed buns and porridge were all prepared in the kitchen, Zhang Zhong did not bother the waiter and asked someone in the restaurant to pack some to take back to the two elders.