Christie (Agatha) The Mystery of the Blue Train
£95
London, Collins Crime Club, 1953.
8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6s.
A Poirot mystery centred on the murder of an American heiress aboard the luxury Blue Train travelling through France. The plot involves stolen jewels, mistaken identities, and romantic entanglements.
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Cloth slightly sunned at top edge; jacket chipped with some loss to edges.
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