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Dodd Mead, 1978-10-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709.

256 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial wrappers. First British edition.Elephants Can Remember is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1972. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. This was the last novel to feature either character, although it was succeeded by Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which had been written in the early 1940s but was published last. Elephants Can Remember concentrates on memory and oral testimony.The novel was adapted into a TV film with David Suchet as Poirot, as an episode in the final series of Agatha Christie's Poirot. It was broadcast on ITV on 9 June 2013, and later on the Acorn TV website on 11 August 2014, over a year later. Zoë Wanamaker returned to the role of Ariadne Oliver, marking her fifth out of six appearances on the show in total. Greta Scacchi (Mrs Burton-Cox), Vanessa Kirby… Read More

224 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First British edition. Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The book features Miss Marple. It was the last Christie novel, published posthumously, although not the last one Christie wrote featuring Miss Marple. The story is set in the 1930s, though written during the Second World War. She aids a young couple who choose to uncover events in the wife's past life, and not let sleeping murder lie. Newlywed Gwenda Reed travels ahead of her husband to find a home for them on the south coast of England. In a short time, she finds and buys Hillside, a large old house that feels just like home. She re-opens the view to the sea from the terrace and renovates with new bathrooms and improved kitchen,… Read More

Arbor House Pub Co, 1971-06. Hardcover. Good. Older Dell PB

SCHERZ, 1962. paperback. gebraucht, gut *** DIE SCHWARZEN KRIMINALROMANE (BROSCHIERT) - BAND: 129 (4. Auflage 1965) *** ALTERSBEDINGTE GEBRAUCHSSPUREN *** .

EDITO-SERVICE, 1982. 1.. softcover.

DELL BOOKS, 04/1974. 1.. softcover.

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.

ULLSTEIN, LEOPOLD, 1968. 1.. softcover. Hercule Poirot KRIMI

London & Sydney: For the Crime Club by Collins: 1950.. First Australian Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 256; bound in publishers mustard cloth, title lettered in black on spine, dustjacket chipped and worn several small pieces missing, fair copy. The 50th novel of Agatha Christie.

SCHERZ, 1961. 5.. softcover.

BERTELSMANN, CARL, 1961?. 1.. hardcover.

FONTANA BOOKS, 1959. 1.. softcover. Miss Jane Marple

London: Samuel French Limited, [circa 1990]. [Drama] CENTENARY EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 70 [4]. Publisher's yellow paper covers, illustrated to upper, reproducing the original from 1954. With a photogravure plate showing the set. Internally bright and clean. Minor crease to upper. A fine copy. First performed in 1952, The Mousetrap would become the longest running West End show of all time. This edition from 1990 marked the centenary of the birth of Agatha Christie.

London: William Collins, 2011. [Crime Mystery] FACSIMILE EDITION, First thus (no later printings stated). Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.237; [3]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black. With the illustrated facsimile dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Absolutely fine/as new. The definitive Christie mystery; widely regarded as one of the most influential crime novels ever written, and often considered the author's masterpiece.

London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1951. [Modern Literature] VINTAGE HARDCOVER REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.192. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 2/- to spine. Tearing to rear pastedown away from board causing some shakiness, spotting to preliminaries, toning and spotting to edges of textblock, toning internally, spotting to spine, some spotting to jacket visible on flaps and reverse, some wear/rubbing to jacket. Very good. A murdered government agent leaves a cryptic message, which Tommy and Tuppence Beresford must decipher; this is the third of five cases for the adventurous detective pair. This novel was first published in 1941 and this vintage hardcover reprint was produce ten years later in 1951 by the Collins Crime Club.

London: William Collins, 2012. [Crime Mystery] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black. With the illustrated dust-jacket. A clean, fine copy. Guests expecting a party game of murder at a country retreat are horrified to discover a real corpse, and another case for Miss Jane Marple ensues.

London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. [Crime Mystery Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 227 [5]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £13.99. Some spotting to edges (mostly to top edge), dated ink name to flyleaf. Near fine. A collection of eight short stories, including four published in the UK in book-form for the first time.

London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1951. [Modern Literature] VINTAGE HARDCOVER REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.256. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 2/- to front cover and spine. Toning to edges of textblock and pages, rubbing to gilt, bumping to spine and edges, tape applied to tearing at crown and base of spine as well as flaps, spotting visible to reverse of jacket to spine, chipping to edges. Very good. The last twelve cases to be taken on by Hercule Poirot before his planned retirement, with an ingenious link to the ancient world and the Belgian detective's heroic namesake. These stories were first published in a single volume in 1947, and this later, vintage edition was published in 1951.

London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1952. [Modern Literature] VINTAGE HARDCOVER REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.188. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 2/- to front cover and spine. Toning to edges of textblock and pages, rubbing to gilt, rolling and bumping to spine and corners, soiling to cloth, 1.5 x 2cm chip to crown of jacket spine, 2.5cm tear to base, wearing to edges, sunning to spine. Very good. Hercule Poirot is a passenger on board a flight from Paris to Croydon. Some time before landing, one of the passengers, a moneylender named Madame Giselle, is found dead. Initially, a reaction to a wasp sting is postulated, but Poirot spies the true cause of death: a poison-tipped dart, apparently fired from a blowpipe. It becomes clear that the victim has been murdered. This novel was first published in 1935 by Collins, and this later, vintage reprint was published in 1952.