Christie (Agatha) The Sittaford Mystery
£400
London, Collins Crime Club, 1931.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
One of Christie’s early non-Poirot, non-Marple mysteries, valued for its atmospheric Dartmoor setting and tightly engineered plotting.
In stock
Ink name and small label to front pastedown, free endpapers renewed; cloth sympathetically rebacked preserving original backstrip.
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