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London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1936. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.252; [4], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in black to spine. Contents and edges clean, no inscriptions, endpapers lightly toned, loss to each corner of rear endpaper, cloth is bright with usual sunning to backstrip. Another case for the legendary detective partnership of Hercule Poirot and best friend, Captain Arthur Hastings. After he faced death unflinchingly in 'The Big Four' and chose Poirot in an instant over his wife, his loyalty to Poirot is sure to prove useful in this Great Western steam train mystery, in which a murderer works through an alphabet of victims. Item #76135
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