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London : W. Collins Sons & Co. for The Crime Club, (1935). First British edition. "Should clergymen drink cocktails? Well, after all ..." - a Poirot mystery - "Mrs. Christie at the top of her form ..." (Dorothy L. Sayers in her Sunday Times review). Towards the end of 1935 Collins advertised this title as "the biggest selling detective story ever published under the Crime Club imprint". First published in the USA as "Murder in Three Acts" (1934).
Crown 8vo. 252,[iv]pp. Bound in a smart recent half black morocco, banded and lettered in gilt; original cloth upper cover and backstrip preserved at rear; edges lightly spotted, but a very good copy.

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, 1937. First edition. "Must be read twice, once for enjoyment and once to see how the wheels go round" (Sunday Times review).
Crown 8vo. 284,[iv]pp. Bound in a handsome recent full holly-green morocco, banded and gilt; author's signature in facsimile in gilt on upper cover; marbled endpapers; some spotting, principally to edges and prelims, but a most attractive copy. Hubin p.79.

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1942). First edition. A Poirot mystery published in the USA as "Murder in Retrospect" - "a little masterpiece" (Barzun & Taylor).
Crown 8vo. 192pp. Bound in a smart recent half burgundy morocco, banded and lettered in gilt; original cloth upper cover and spine retained at rear; a handful of tiny spots and minor creases, but a very good copy indeed. Barzun & Taylor 773. Hubin p.80.

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1943). First British edition. An early Miss Marple - "a demonstration - if any were needed - of the author's absolute command of her special genre" (Barzun & Taylor).
Crown 8vo (19cm). 160pp. Original orange-red cloth, lettered across spine in black; a little sunned, rear endpaper slightly creased, but otherwise a very good copy. Barzun & Taylor 770. Hubin p.80.

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1949). First edition. "I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war ...".
Crown 8vo. 192pp. Original red cloth, blocked and lettered across spine in black; a few very minor signs of age and use; mild spotting of edges and endpapers, but a very good copy in a price-clipped dust-jacket - skilfully repaired and restored at extremities. Barzun & Taylor 760. Hubin p.79.

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