THE MONOGRAM MURDERS: THE NEW HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY.

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy,black background with gilt.silver and white illustrated dw/dj panels+spine/backstrip with b/w lettering,embossed silver gilt letters and gilt facsimile Christie signature.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,gold cloth boards with black impressed Poirot silhouette illustration to front board and spine,trhe spine with black impressed letters includes facsimile A. Christie signature,black headband and immaculate gold and b/w art-decoesque illustrated sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+1- 372pp [paginated] includesacknowledgements,contents list/table;25 chapters+Epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title with Agatha Christie's list of works to verso,title page,a dedication to Agatha Christie,and to reversse of last unpaginated page of story,book's author's list of published works to date.

Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally, the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. A new Hercule Poirot novel,another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his 'little grey cells'. Since the publication of her first book in 1920,Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels,two plays and more than 50 short stories featuring Hercule Poirot.Now, for the first time ever,the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha's most beloved creation. Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered.She is terrified,but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer.Once she is dead,she insists,justice will have been done.Later that night,Poirot learns that three guests at the fashionable Bloxham Hotel have been murdered,a cufflink placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim. In the hands of internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah, Poirot plunges into a mystery set in 1920s London,a diabolically clever puzzle that can only be solved by the talented Belgian detective. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.