Rooke Books: Detective Fiction
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
London, Collins, 1935. First edition. Cloth. An early edition of Agatha Christie's Poirot story 'The Mystery of the Blue Train&apos. The first edition, twelfth impression. Issued seven years after the true first. Understandably lacking the very scarce original dustwrapper.A very early edition of this important Poirot novel in the Christie canon. Agatha Christie is known as the queen of Crime Fiction. She wrote during the Golden Age of the genre and created beloved detectives such as Hercule Poirot with his 'little grey cells' and the inquisitive elderly sleuth Miss Marple. The pages are unusually clean. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light rubbing to he joints and extremities. Minor bumping to the bottom of board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Minor offsetting to the endpapers. Small ink mark to the bottom edge. Pages are clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .
-- Boeknummer: 751L20
GBP 240.00 [Appr.: EURO 282]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: Poirot Agatha Christie Blue Train Agatha Christie None
Nemesis
London, The Crime Club, by Collins, 1971 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling Miss Marple mystery novel by Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.'Nemesis' is the final Miss Marple novel written by Christie, in which Marple receives posthumous letters from Jason Rafiel, whom she previously met in 'A Caribbean Mystery&apos.A contemporary review in the Daily Mirror remarked that 'with this first-rate story Dame Agatha triumphantly returns to the traditional detective novel after a spell of psychological suspense&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Bumped to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Edgewear to head and tail of dust wrapper back strip, with instances of rubbing towards head and tail of front wrap. Handling marks and light discolouration to rear wrap. Significant spotting to reverse of dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned to perimeters, but otherwise clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Boeknummer: 872F54
GBP 122.00 [Appr.: EURO 143.25]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: miss marple A Caribbean Mystery Hercule Poirot A Caribbean Mystery None
Ordeal by Innocence
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.
Boeknummer: 872F55
GBP 210.00 [Appr.: EURO 246.75]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: Ordeal by Innocence hercule poirot miss marple hercule poirot None
Ordeal by Innocence
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 Christie herself. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped 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. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper age toned to back strip and rear wrap. Handling marks to rear wrap. Small closed tear to back strip tail, with chipping to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with one spot to tail of pages 159 to 177. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Boeknummer: 865F42
GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 258.5]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: Ordeal by Innocence murder mystery detective fiction murder mystery None
The Pale Horse
London, The Crime Club, by Collins, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Agathe Christie's thrilling murder mystery, with a somewhat supernatural theme. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.Christie's thrilling mystery follows the narrator Mark Easterbrook as he investigates a list of names and the death of a Catholic Priest. With a small appearance from Christie's novelist detective Ariadne Oliver.This novel is notable among Christie's books as it is credited with having saved at least two lives, after readers recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning from the description in the book. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Bumped to back strip head, otherwise externally excellent. Light spotting to fore edge of text block. Dust wrapper rear wrap age toned, with significant spotting. Amateur restorations to dust wrapper back strip, most concentrated to head and tail. Tide marks to fore edge of front wrap. Closed tears to tail of rear wrap. To the reverse of the dust wrapper are significant restorations to the back strip head and tail, and further restorations to tail of rear wrap, and head and tail of flyleaf folds. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with only the odd spot, most concentrated to first and last few leaves and page perimeters. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.
Boeknummer: 872F56
GBP 140.00 [Appr.: EURO 164.5]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: ariadne oliver hercule poirot mystery miss marple hercule poirot None
Partners in Crime
London, The Crime Club, Collins, c1951. Cloth. The Uniform Edition printing of Agatha Christie's short story anthology. This work features her famous detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Undated, dated from the list of Christie publications to the verso of half-title. 'They Came to Baghdad' is the final novel on this list.This collection was first printed in 1929. With the original unclipped dustwrapper. which features a striking design to the front wrap.A small format of this Agatha Christie collection, which contains several fantastic whodunnits. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Light rubbing to the head and tail of spine. Patch of dust wrapper adhered to the rear board with evidence of removal attempt. Front hinge is strained but firm. Rear hinge is tender. Dust wrapper is sound with a large loss to the rear wrap. A few smaller chips to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned due to the paper used, with just the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Good Only.
Boeknummer: 801L5
GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 76.5]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: Crime Beresford Tommy and Tuppence Beresford None
Passenger to Frankfurt
London, The Crime Club, by Collins, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of Agatha Christie's thrilling 1970 spy novel. The first edition, first impression of this work, published to coincide with the eightieth birthday of Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie.In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped.'Passenger to Frankfurt' is a thrilling espionage novel, following Stafford Nye, a middle aged diplomat, as he steps into the world of spies and secret agents. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bump to back strip head, otherwise externally fine. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, as is common with this work. Light edgewear to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
Boeknummer: 872F52
GBP 214.00 [Appr.: EURO 251.25]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: spy novel spy fiction hercule poirot miss marple spy fiction None
Passenger to Frankfurt
London, The Crime Club, by Collins, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. A delightful first edition copy of Agatha Christie's thrilling 1970 spy novel. The first edition, first impression of this work, published to coincide with the eightieth birthday of Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie.In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped.'Passenger to Frankfurt' is a thrilling espionage novel, following Stafford Nye, a middle aged diplomat, as he steps into the world of spies and secret agents.With a small inscription to the head of the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to head of front free endpaper. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip and head of front wrap, otherwise excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Boeknummer: 866F7
GBP 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 193.75]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: spy novel spy fiction hercule poirot miss marple spy fiction None
Peril at End House
London, The Crime Club Ltd, 1934. Cloth. The fifth impression of Agatha Christie's sixth 'Poirot' detective crime novel. The first edition, fifth impression. In the publisher's original cloth. This was written by the iconic queen of crime Agatha Christie and is the sixth novel featuring her famous detective Poirot. This novel follows Poirot and Hastings as they try to figure out who is trying to kill a women called Magdala 'Nick' Buckley. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally generally smart with a closed tear to the head of the spine, a lean, marks to the boards, light rubbing to the extremities with light bumping to the extremities of the boards. The odd spot to the endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound with slight strain between 208-209pp. Pages bright with occasional scattered spotting. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Boeknummer: 901Z8
GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 229]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: Agatha Christie Crime Collins Crime Club Poirot Crime Fiction None
Poirot and the Regatta Mystery
London, Vallancey Press Limited, 1944. Hardback. A very scarce Poirot short story by the queen of crime fiction Agatha Christie, a sought-after story. A very scarce work.First edition thus, being the first time this story with Poirot as the protagonist detective was published in book form in the U.K.'Poirot and the Regatta Mystery' is a typically gripping Agatha Christie short story, following a diamond merchant and his party as they descend from their yacht to enjoy festivities at the beach. Not long into the party the youngest member decides to play a trick with a £30,000 diamond, which suddenly escalated into a grant jewel theft. Poirot is called in to solve the disappearance by a man who pleads that he is not the thief..The original form of this story, which was adapted to feature Parker Pyne as the detective for the 1939 publication of 'The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories&apos.This Poirot-centered tale first appeared in 'The Strand Magazine' in June 1936, and 'The Chicago Tribune' in May 1936.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.Published by F. Hugh Vallancey, a philatelist and editor whose business was destroyed during the Blitz in 1941. He published this title and two others by Christie after 1942 when he was building up his publishing press again, before being forced to retire due to poor health in 1948. The other Christie tales he published in the same format were 'Crime in Cabin 66' and 'The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest&apos. In the original publisher's card boards. Externally, spotted. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Boeknummer: 876P29
GBP 1250.00 [Appr.: EURO 1467.5]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: Poirot and the Regatta Mystery agatha christie poirot regatta agatha christie None
Sleeping Murder
London, The Crime Club, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A fine, first edition copy of this Miss Marple novel by the Queen of Crime Fiction, Agatha Christie. From the library of Julians park, Hertfordshire. Published posthumously, but written in the 1940's. This was the final 'new' Agatha Christie novel to be published.With the original dustwrapper which is price clipped. A price sticker from the publisher has been adhered to the flyleaf reading '£3.50 Collins&apos. This novel is set in the 1930's where Miss Marple aids a young couple who choose to uncover events in the wife's past life, and not let sleeping murder life. Christie's well known elderly detective, Miss Marple, was based on her own step-Grandmother and her cronies. Agatha Christie is one of the most prolific crime writers of the twentieth century. Her work consists of 66 detective novels, 150 short stories and 19 plays; she is the writer of the world's longest running play, The Mousetrap which has been on stage since 1952. Christie is also one of the best-selling novelists of all time and her works rank highly in the most-widely published books.From the library at Julians Park, the former home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (Audrey Evelyn James Coats, and Audrey Evelyn James Field). Pleydell-Bouverie was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire. Audrey was also alleged to be the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII, although she was also rumoured to be his daugher, or the lover of King Edward VIII. She bought Julians Park in 1940 following her third marriage to the Hon Peter Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was a patron of the arts and it is believed that she bound several books herself, as many books from her library were stamped with her name and she owned a group of bookbinding tools. Her circle of friends included Winston Churchill, Coco Chanel and Nancy Mitford. She was featured in Cecil Beaton's 'Book of Beauty' and was regarded as one of the Bright Young Things. In the original cloth binding and held in original dustwrapper which is price-clipped. Sticker to the flyleaf '£3.50 Collins&apos. Externally, excellent with minor shelf-wear. Dustwrapper is unusually bright, as it is common for the spine of this work to fade. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
Boeknummer: 793L25
GBP 140.00 [Appr.: EURO 164.5]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: Christie Marple Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Marple Mystery None
They Do It with Mirrors
London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1952 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Agatha Christie's thrilling detective fiction novel, set in a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Published in the US under the title 'Murder with Mirrors', this thrilling novel features elderly amateur sleuth Miss Marple.The novel follows Marple as she visits her American school friend, who is concerned about her sister, Carrie Louise. Carrie Louise lives in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents, and where a mysterious visitor has been shot dead. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with light fading to cloth in these regions. Loss to dust wrapper back strip tail, with slight sunning to back strip. Minor loss to back strip head. Rear wrap age toned, with spotting. Spotting to reverse of dust wrapper at back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.
Boeknummer: 865F36
GBP 170.00 [Appr.: EURO 199.75]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: They Do it With Mirrors miss marple hercule poirot Murder with Mirrors miss marple None
They Came to Baghdad
London, The Crime Club, by Collins, 1951 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this standalone political thriller by Queen of Crime Agatha Christie. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.'They Came to Baghdad' was inspired by Agatha's own trips to Baghdad with her archaeologist husband Sir Max Mallowan. A thrilling tale of espionage and action, this is one of Christie's few novels not to follow the formula of a mystery novel or whodunnit. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to back strip tail, and bright boards. Lacking the majority of the dust wrapper front wrap, with remaining portion torn in two, separating the front flyleaf from the front wrap. Further loss to tail of back strip, with minor loss to back strip head. Dust wrapper age toned, with light spotting to reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Fair.
Boeknummer: 866F6
GBP 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 105.75]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: hercule poirot agatha christie detective fiction crime fiction agatha christie None
Three Act Tragedy; Death in the Clouds; N or M?
London, Collins, 1950-1951. Cloth. A bright trio of popular Agatha Christie novels published by the Collins Crime Club, in their original unclipped dust wrappers. Three novels in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Collins Crime Club, an imprint of William Collins, Sons & Co. ran from 1930 to 1994. Pre-war first editions in their vibrant dust wrappers are now particularly sought-after. Three Act Tragedy and Death in the Clouds, featuring the widely beloved Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, are both undated but estimated to be 1950 editions from the list of titles to the verso of the half-title, in which 'A Murder is Announced' is the most recent title listed. Poirot must link together three mysterious deaths in the former, and unravel a murder on an aeroplane flight in the latter. Also included in this selection is a 1951 edition of N or M?, in which the lively duo Tommy and Tuppence investigate two German spies. In publisher's original cloth bindings, with original unclipped dust wrappers. Overall, cloth remains bright and smart, with light shelf wear to the extremities and head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned. Tape repairs to the verso of the dust wrapper to Three Act Tragedy, reinforcing the chipped areas to the head and tail of the spine and folds of the flaps. Just some light shelf wear to the dust wrappers of Death in the Clouds and N or M. Overall, dust wrappers remain bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Very Good.
Boeknummer: 857M2
GBP 140.00 [Appr.: EURO 164.5]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: Agatha Christie Crime Crime Club Detective Crime Not Stated
Why Didn&Apos;T They Ask Evans?
London, The Crime Club, Collins, 1934. Cloth. An uncommon, early edition of this crime fiction novel by Agatha Christie. 'Why Didn't They Ask Evans' is set in Wales and Hampshire. It follows protagonist Bobby Jones and his friend Lady Frances Derwent as they try to solve the murder of a mysterious man found at Jones' local golf course. The victim's final words were 'Why didn't they ask Evans?&apos. This work features amateur detectives, which critics saw as a charming change compared to the novels featuring Christie's expert detective Poirot. This copy is an eighth impression, being published six years after the initial printing. In the original 'Uniform Edition' binding, with the original yellow and green dustwrapper unclipped. A bright copy of this stand-alone Christie novel. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Bumping to the top right corner of the front board. Slight fading to the head and tail of spine as well as to the extremities. Dust wrapper is sound. Large loss to the tail of the spine. Minor chips to the head of the spine. Former owner's inscription in pencil to the recto of front endpaper 'Keith Arrowsmith Read at Abingdon November 1995&apos. Rear hinge is strained but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright. Scattered spotting to pages, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Good.
Boeknummer: 802L6
GBP 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 528.5]
Catalogus: Detective Fiction
Trefwoorden: Detective Crime Fiction Agatha Christie Crime Fiction None
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