"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1966. [Murder mystery] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's patterned red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill, priced at 18s. One small ink mark to front pastedown under flap. Moderate spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Some light wear and a few marks to jacket edges, with a larger tear to the head of the spine; clean and bright overall. Very good. When a young girl vaguely confesses to a possible murder she's not sure she committed, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is thrown for a loop. The girl with a secret subsequently disappears, and no one's talking. Item #66953
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