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, no inscriptions, jacket is rather used showing several chips and tears, creases to extremities, rubs to spine and panels. "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 #76112

Price: £225.00