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

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 242 [4]. Publisher's brown quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and orange paper over boards. Top edge brown, fore-edge untrimmed, and orange endpapers. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at $7.95. Crisp and clean internally, with spotting to top and lower edges. Jacket slightly sunned to spine, with some light handling. Near fine. The fifteenth and final Jane Marple novel finds the Queen of Sleuths attempting to solve a murder for a distraught companion. But was the murder real, or all in her friend's mind? Item #62235
Price: £38.00