Taken at the Flood.

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

London: For The Crime Club by Collins, 1948. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange hardback cloth binding, blocked to spine in black, illustrated dust-jacket. Contents and edges of text block are clean and fresh, no inscriptions, cloth remains a rich red, jacket with a few small nicks to spine ends and extremities, price clipped. A near fine copy. Better than many examples- the fragile jacket for this title is prone to paper losses and wear. Set in post-war Britain, in which euphoria has turned to discontent, even among the landed gentry. This intrigue involving Poirot, concerns the Cloade family, whose fortunes are in the hands of an attractive young family member, recently widowed... The novel was titled 'There is a Tide' in the USA. Item #76107

Wagstaff and Poole p.198. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction p.82-89.

Price: £595.00