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Mrs. McGinty's Dead.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.188; [4], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper by Kenneth Farnhill, priced at 9/6. Contents clean, some spotting/toning to edges and endpapers, no inscriptions, jacket is used, with some chips, tears and rubbing. "Mrs McGinty was dead. She was hit on the back of the head with some sharp, heavy implement and her pitifully small savings were taken... The inimitable Poirot, with his slightly comical aspect, his "little grey cells" and his genuinely warm heart, returns in an ingenious detective novel that once again earns for Agatha Christie the justifiable epithet of "incomparable"." Item #75945
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