Christie (Agatha) Mrs McGinty’s Dead
£325
London, Collins Crime Club, 1952.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A decent first UK edition of this famous village ‘whodunit’, playfully placing Poirot in the scene rather than Miss Marple.
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Ink name to front free endpaper; cloth sunned at extreme head of spine; jacket a little rubbed at spine ends with minor fading to spine, overall very good.
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