As I read The Viscount and the Viscount, my question was why. Portia Gadstone is desperate to marry…really almost anyone of rank. Because as she begins to fall for her devilishly seductive husband, her dark secrets surface and threaten to ruin them both-unless Locke is willing to risk all and open his heart to love. Now the sedate-and, more importantly, secure-union Portia planned has been tossed in favor of one simmering with wicked temptation and potential heartbreak. Or so she believes until the marquess’s distractingly handsome son peruses the fine print. The arrangement will offer the protection she needs.
as long as inconvenient feelings don’t interfere.ĭesperation forced Portia to agree to marry a madman. A marriage of mutual pleasure could be convenient, indeed. But when his sire arranges to marry flame-haired fortune hunter Portia Gadstone, Locke is compelled to take drastic measures to stop the stunning beauty from taking advantage of the marquess. Viscount Locksley watched it happen to his father after his cherished wife’s death. You can listen online to free English audiobook “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” by Agatha Christie on our website.Love begets madness. As Poirot investigates further, he discovers that John Cavendish has been named in Emily’s will as the sole inheritor of the property, just as had been stipulated in his father’s will. The inhabitants of the household include Emily’s new husband, Alfred, whom she recently married their stepsons, John and Lawrence Cavendish John’s wife Mary Cynthia Murdoch, daughter of a deceased family friend and Emily’s attendant, Evelyn Howard. Poirot learns that Emily inherited immense wealth following the death of her previous husband, Mr Cavendish, who left her with both the manor and a percentage of his income. Poirot, who is indebted to Inglethorp for helping him acclimate to his new life, agrees to help. While there, Hastings solicits the help of his friend, Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot, to investigate Emily’s death. Arthur Hastings, a soldier on sick leave from the Western Front, travels to the nearby village of Styles St.
As the story begins, the inhabitants of Styles Court awaken one morning to find that the rich elderly owner of the estate, Emily Inglethorp, has been poisoned to death with strychnine. The novel is narrated in the first person by Arthur Hastings, a guest at Styles Court, a lavish manor outside of Essex, England.
It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie.
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