Five Little Pigs. The Agatha Christie Collection. Volume 29 (Copy 2).

HARDBACK ?VOLUME 29 IN THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2002-2004* Publisher:- Planet Three Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Grey paper covered boards with small inset colour vignette to the front board, gilt titles to face and to black spine strip. Very slight rubbing to spine gilding. No shelf wear to boards or marks to covers. VG++. * Jacket condition: No dust wrapper, (as issued).* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Patterned and coloured end papers (light grey marbling). Clean, crisp tight and bright with no reading wear, marks to text or age to page margins & edges, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 219 pp. text. vi pp. blank at rear.* Product Description: This was first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in May 1942 under the title of "Murder In Retrospect" and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1943 although some sources state that publication occurred in November 1942. The book features detective Hercule Poirot investigating five people about a murder committed sixteen years earlier. Caroline Crale died in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murdering her husband, Amyas Crale, by poisoning him. In her final letter from prison, she claims to be innocent of the murder. Her daughter Carla Lemarchant asks Poirot to investigate this cold case, based on the memories of the people closest to the couple.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st. thus 1st. impression, with minimal cover wear reducing it to VG++.*