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Ordeal by Innocence (#4655)
by Agatha Christie
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- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/None Issued
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Ordeal by Innocence (#4655) Pocket Books 2nd printing thus January, 1964. 211 pages. Pocket Books, Inc. NY. USED. GOOD CONDITION. 4 ¼ X 6 3/8.
Synopsis
While serving a sentence for killing his mother - a crime he insisted he didn't commit - Jacko Argyle dies in prison. Two years later, the man who could have supported Jacko's alibi suddenly turns up. It appears that Jacko was innocent... and that the murderer is part of the surviving family.The novel was first published in 1958 by William Collins Son & Co. in London, and in 1959 by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. It was filmed in 1984 by Golan-Gobus Productions in England starring Donald Sutherland, Sarah Miles and Christopher Plummer. The film adheres closely to the novel. The New York Times described the novel as one of Christie's most engaging works. "Characteristically surprising, trickily constructed and yet firmly based in character..."This book is dedicated, "To Billy Collins with affection and gratitude." It was he who lured Christie from the Bodley Head, which published her first six books, to Williams Collins Sons & Co in 1926. Now known as HarperCollins this company is UK publisher of Christie's books to this day. An adaptation of tihs novel was broadcast, with the addition of Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple, in 2007.
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- Bookseller
- Mary Riversong Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 911ChristieOrdeal
- Title
- Ordeal by Innocence (#4655)
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Printing Thus
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1964
- Pages
- 211
- Size
- 4 1/4 X 6 3/8
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Jack Argyle, Mrs. Argyle
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Anglophilia; Agatha Christie; Detective Fiction; 20th Century Literature; Vintage and Pulp Paperbacks;
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