Author: Agatha Christie
Title: The Hound of Death and Other Stories
Description: London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1940. Cloth. A scarce early edition of these popular short stories by Agatha Christie, which includes the first appearance in text of 'Witness of the Prosecution&apos. A very scarce edition of 'Queen of Crime' Agatha Christie's collection of short stories, here in the Crime Club uniform edition of 1940. There were no more UK Crime Club hardcovers of this book issued until 1965.A collection of twelve short stories, containing 'The Hound of Death', 'The Red Signal', 'The Fourth Man', 'The Gypsy', 'The Lamp', 'Wireless', 'The Witness for the Prosecution', 'The Mystery of the Blue Jar', 'The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael', 'The Call of Wings', 'The Last Seance', and 'SOS&apos.'The Witness for the Prosecution' is notable as Christie later adapted the story into an award-winning play.Agatha Christie is one of the most prolific and successful detective writers of her time, writing sixty-six detective novels in total. She is best known for her protagonists Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A little fading to the spine and extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Light spots to the fore edge. Label to the rear paste down, institutional stamp to the verso to the rear endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just a few light spots. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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