Christie agatha

1969 · 49699 — Hamlyn 1969-1972. 24 vols. 8vo. First Edition; decorative black cloth upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and red red tops red endpapers a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper some wrappers lightly toned but with no absolutely no trace of the usual red fading. A notably bright clean set of the definitive collected edition including the author's short stories issued on a subscription basis by the publisher and not available through bookshops. Each volume contains three stories or story collections. It would seem that many subscribers may have lacked commitment during the four years of publication for complete sets are far less common than one might imagine. The attractive bindings incorporate a golden dagger. The set comprises The Murder of Roger Ackroyd They do it with Mirrors Mrs. McGinty's Dead 1969; Cards on the Table N or M A Murder is Announced 1969; Appointment with Death Crooked House Sad Cypress 1969; 4.50 from Paddington Lord Edgware Dies Murder in Mesopotamia 1969; Murder on the Orient Express Death in the Clouds Why didn't they ask Evans 1969; The Murder on the Links A Pocket Full of Rye Destination Unknown 1969; The Hollow The Moving Finger Three Act Tragedy 1969; Mystery of the Blue Train The Listerdale Mystery short stories Murder at the Vicarage 1970; Murder is Easy Dead Man's Folly The Man in the Brown Suit 1970; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side They came to Baghdad The ABC Murders 1970; Ordeal by Innocence One Two Buckle my Shoe Adventure of the Christmas Pudding 1970; Cat among the Pigeons The Labours of Hercules Hickory Dickory Dock 1970; The Mysterious Affair at Styles Ten Little Niggers Dumb Witness 1970; The Pale Horse The Big Four The Secret Adversary 1970; Peril at End House The Body in the Library Hercule Poirot's Christmas 1970; Death on the Nile Towards Zero After the Funeral 1970; Sparkling Cyanide The Secret of Chimneys Five Little Pigs 1970; Evil Under the Sun Death Comes as the End The Sittaford Mystery 1970; A Caribbean Mystery Taken at the Flood The Seven Dials Mystery 1971; By the Pricking of my Thumbs The Mysterious Mr. Quin Endless Night 1971; Hallowe'en Party Passenger to Frankfurt The Thirteen Problems 1971; The Clocks Third Girl Murder in the Mews 1971; Partners in Crime At Bertram's Hotel The Hound of Death 1972; Nemesis Parker Pyne Investigates Poirot Investigates 1972. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITIONS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE Hamlyn, hardcover