"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1932. [Literature/ Crime Fiction] FIRST APPEARANCE as of this Poirot detective mystery as published in The Strand, in the original colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. Octavo (25 x 19cm). With frequent illustrations, some in colour. Issue is sewn at spine. Contents clean, covers show some handling with some rubs to extremities, some wear to spine. Very good. Hercule Poirot must solve the case of a murdered man, found with a gun in a locked room. A particularly elusive Poirot story which did not appear in book-form in the UK until 1991, in the collection Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories. Item #72602
Price: £350.00
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