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— C. S. Lewis
London: The Readers Library Publishing Co., no date [1929]. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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, dust jacket has light wear/soiling with a chip/loss at crown. Very good. 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 #71959
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