Sparkling Cyanide.

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

London: For the Crime Club by Collins, 1945. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's orange cloth with titles in black to spine. Illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8s.6d. Contents clean, ink name/date to endpaper, jacket rather used; chipped to extremities, larger loss at foot of spine. "A year ago, seven people sat down to dinner. One of them, Rosemary Barton, never got up...." 'Sparkling Cyanide' is an expansion of a Hercule Poirot short story entitled 'Yellow Iris'. It is one of four cases featuring the British former MI5 agent Colonel Johnny Race, who first appeared in 'The Man In the Brown Suit' (1924), and had partnered Poirot in 'Cards on the Table' (1936) and 'Death On the Nile' (1937). Published in December 1945, following the US first edition (as 'Remembered Death') in February that year. Item #72699

Price: £250.00