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Ordeal By Innocence.
London: For The Crime Club by Collins, 1958. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Contents edges clean, if a little tanned, no ink names, jacket is bright and fresh. An excellent copy showing minimal handling. A novel concerning retrospective or belated justice which brings murder into a truly domestic setting, 'Ordeal By Innocence' was one of the author Agatha Christie's own favourites. Basis for the chilling movie starring Faye Dunaway and Donald Sutherland. Item #76108
Wagstaff and Poole p.212. See also Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction. HUBIN; Crime Fiction IV.
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