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Ordeal By Innocence:The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection
by Christie, Agatha
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0553350676
- ISBN 13
- 9780553350678
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Bantam Books/Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1987. First Thus. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Bantam Books, Inc. 1987, First Printing (First Thus). Hardcover Book As New. No jacket, as issued. Former owner bookplate. The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection which was published between June 1982 and October 2000. The Black Leatherette Collection. Black leatherette with gilt titles to spine, gilt silhouette portrait front decoration, marbled, colored, feather endpapers. Sewn binding. Except for the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976) is the best selling novelist of all time, selling over 2 billion copies of her books. She is best known for her 66 detective novels featuring those well-known fictional 'detectives', Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. 212 pp. 8vo. 1987, Bantam Books/Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Groups. ISBN10: 0553350676, ISBN13: 9780553350678,
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
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028761
- Title
- Ordeal By Innocence:The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0553350676
- ISBN 13
- 9780553350678
- Publisher
- Bantam Books/Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Canada
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- MYSTERY BRITISH MYSTERIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Mystery, British & Other Countries;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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