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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1940). First edition. A young and beautiful woman on trial for an apparently open-and-shut case of murder – Poirot sits in court. “All you need to know here is that Agatha has triumphantly done it again. The same infernal ingenuity, the same devilish double-crossing, the same old new twist, the same punch in the last pages. Be thankful she doesn’t take to murder in real earnest” (Daily Herald, 18th April 1940).
Crown 8vo (182 x 118mm). 252,[iv]pp. Bound in a smart recent half burgundy calf, banded and gilt; a few slight spots, but a very good copy in a pleasant binding.

£500

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, [1950]. First British paperback edition. A Christie curiosity, a detective story set in ancient Egypt. First published in the UK in 1945 and here in the attractive Collins “White Circle” format.
Crown 8vo (18cm). 160pp. Original wrappers; a few very minor signs of age and use, text lightly tanned, but a very good copy.

£20

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1951). First edition. A foray into the spy thriller genre – secret summit of the super-powers, etc. “The usual spirited young creature is Victoria Jones, a London typist with a gift of mimicry and genius for telling lies” (Illustrated London News, 28th April 1951).
Crown 8vo (20cm). 256pp. Original orange-red cloth, blocked and lettered in black; a very good copy indeed in the dust-jacket – a typographic design in green and red on cream – just faintly rubbed, with a single short tear to back panel, but also very good.

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1955). First edition. “A series of petty thefts brings Poirot to a students’ hostel where psychological, racial and sexual differences provide a rich field for Miss Christie’s conjuring tricks, Poirot is mellowed and delightful” (Yorkshire Post, 18th November 1955).
Crown 8vo (184 x 115mm). (192)pp. Bound in a smart recent half burgundy oasis, banded and gilt; original linson spine preserved at rear; a few slight spots, but a very good copy, attractively bound.

£250

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1962). First edition. “Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window” – the last of her true country village mysteries. “The story is of an apparently unmotivated murder at a fête held in Miss Marples’s village, where a famous film star has recently bought the local mansion ... classic Christie sleight-of-hand technique” (Birmingham Daily Post, 4th December 1962).
Crown 8vo (185 x 118mm). (256)pp. Bound in an elegant recent half chestnut morocco, banded and gilt; some spotting of edges and prelims but otherwise a handsome copy.

£250

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1962). First edition. “Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window” – the last of her true country village mysteries. “The story is of an apparently unmotivated murder at a fête held in Miss Marples’s village, where a famous film star has recently bought the local mansion ... classic Christie sleight-of-hand technique” (Birmingham Daily Post, 4th December 1962).
Crown 8vo (182 x 115mm). (256)pp. Bound in a neat recent half blue calf, banded and gilt; original linson backstrip preserved at rear; a very good, clean and sound copy.

£250

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