"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

London: The Crime Club, 1971. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of dagger, pistol, moustache and knitting needles tooled as the four corner-pieces, all edges gilt. Original cloth spine and upper bound in at rear. Internally clean and bright. A fine copy in a handsome leather binding. Unusually for Christie, a sequel to her earlier "A Caribbean Mystery". Miss Marple—Christie's favourite creation—is called to be ruthless in the name of justice. Item #60634
Price: £295.00