Author: Agatha Christie
Title: Ordeal by Innocence
Description: London, The Crime Club, by Collins, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Agatha Christie's stand-alone psychological murder mystery, a work particularly favoured by the author herself. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.'Ordeal by Innocence' surrounds the mystery of Jacko Argyle, who dies in prison whilst serving a sentence for killing his mother.Two years after Jacko's death, his alibi appears, and his family suddenly realise that he was innocent, and that one of them must be the real killer.Faint former owner's inscription to tail of front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally fine. Dust wrapper lightly age toned to rear wrap, with light edgewear to back strip head and tail. Small closed tear to head of rear wrap. Neat tape reinforcements to dust wrapper reverse at head and tail of back strip, and head of front and rear wrap. Faint former owner's inscription to tail of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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