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CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976).

London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1941. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Hand-bound in deep red half calf over cloth sides, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt. Contents clean, exterior as new. A fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. A murdered government agent leaves a cryptic message, which Tommy and Tuppence Beresford must decipher; this is the third of five cases for the adventurous detective pair, following 'The Secret Adversary' (1922) and 'Partners In Crime' (1929). They would return in 'By The Pricking of My Thumbs' (1968) and 'Postern of Fate' (1973). Item #66792

Price: £285.00