Just 100 years ago, Agatha Christie completed her first published novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of this work, Royal Mail has shown a series of 6 new commemorative stamps, each representing one of the best works by the British author.
The truth is that simplifying those 80 books published in merely 6 It is a difficult task, but the agency in charge of designing them seems to have done a great job. 6 stamps that take advantage of dark tones, in which black and gray are the predominant ones to give the necessary coldness to those cases of mystery that made Agatha Christie famous.
The stamps have been designed by Studio Southerland and illustrated by Neil Webb. Although we are facing some stamps, the reality is that we are facing 6 creative pieces of great talent at all levels. Nor have they forgotten any particular fact as there are even hidden mysteries that those who buy them will have to solve or explore.
It is difficult to decide which is the best label of that series, but the one dedicated to the book that was published just 100 years ago, The mysterious case of Styles, with the famous detectives Hercules Poirot and Arthur Hastings, is the one that best demonstrates the degree of exquisiteness that these 6 six stamps have in general terms.
In that stamp, you can even see, if the image is enlarged, how there is a small reproduction in the bottle brand picture containing the poison and to which the two famous detectives pay attention.
A date for mystery and a almost monochrome designIf it weren't for Agatha Christie's own image and the other elements that have bright colors to be the perfect contrast with all those black illustrations that have a quite appreciable retro air.