New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1965. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 245 [1]. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with black and gilt titles to spine, and green cloth-effect paper over boards. Top edge and endpapers green. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at $4.50. Crisp and clean internally. Light toning and marking to jacket, with some sunning to spine and wear to edges. Very good. As Miss Marple snoozes in the West Indian sun, a retired military man talks of elephant-shooting and scandals. Soon he is found dead, and the deceptively frail spinster sleuth must investigate a most exotic murder. Item #62232

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