"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
Two New Crime Stories. The Under Dog, and Blackman's Wood by E. Phillips Oppenheim.
London: The Readers Library Publishing Co., no date [1929]. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (17 x 11cm), pp188; [2], advertisements. Publisher's burgundy cloth gilt-stamped to upper and spine. With the illustrated dust-wrapper by Vernon L Soper. Contents toned as expected, slight lean, gilt to spine dulled, bright dust jacket has light wear to the spine tips and corners. A most attractive copy of a fragile and cheaply produced book. Includes a Hercule Poirot story. 'Surely one of the best-loved and most widely read detective fiction writers of all time. Her tales are diverse and subtly contrived and in Miss Jean Marple, her gentle little spinster sleuth, and M. Hercule Poirot, the precise and dignified Belgian detective, she has created two of the greatest characters ever to grace the genre'. Item #64175
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