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Mrs Belloc Lowndes, The Lonely House, Readers Library edition, c.1930
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Belloc Lowndes (Mrs [Marie]) The Lonely House

Original price was: £120.Current price is: £96.

London, Readers Library, [c.1930].

Readers Library edition. 8vo. Original turquoise cloth. Dust-jacket.

An attractive edition of this 1920s crime fiction title, featuring one Hercules Popeau, a contemporary creation to Hercule Poirot, the comparison with which lead to a dispute with Agatha Christie, with Belloc Lowndes complaining to the Society of Authors.

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Some minor foxing; cloth very good; jacket with small chip to lower panel, a couple of small closed tears, overall very good.

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