"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1924. [Mystery novel] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.275; [5]. Publisher's mid-brown cloth binding lettered in dark brown, blind-stamped device to upper, fore-edge untrimmed. No inscriptions, contents clean, rear paper joint starting, covers gently rubbed at extremities. Near fine. The fourth of Christie's sixty-six original crime novels, and the first to feature the secret service agent Johnny Race. "A well-paced thriller... which aficionados consider one of her best" [Wagstaff and Poole, p.30]. Item #72043
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