The £10 Adventure [The Case of the City Clerk] [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume LXXXIV, number 503.

VARIOUS; CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976), et al.

London: George Newnes, November 1932. [Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (25 x 17cm), pp.[32] 443-554 [33-44]. With a suite of four double-sided black and white photographs of Cedric Hardwicke, and numerous in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. A nice clean copy with a little wear to covers. Near fine. The first UK appearance of a Parker Pyne mystery which was first published in the US in Cosmopolitan Magazine in August 1932, and later featured in the short story collection 'Parker Pyne Investigates' (1934) as 'The Case of the City Clerk.'. Item #59955

Price: £100.00