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Dodd Mead, 1978-10-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.1102 9.1299 6.5709.

256 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial wrappers. First British edition.Elephants Can Remember is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1972. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. This was the last novel to feature either character, although it was succeeded by Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which had been written in the early 1940s but was published last. Elephants Can Remember concentrates on memory and oral testimony.The novel was adapted into a TV film with David Suchet as Poirot, as an episode in the final series of Agatha Christie's Poirot. It was broadcast on ITV on 9 June 2013, and later on the Acorn TV website on 11 August 2014, over a year later. Zoë Wanamaker returned to the role of Ariadne Oliver, marking her fifth out of six appearances on the show in total. Greta Scacchi (Mrs Burton-Cox), Vanessa Kirby… Read More

224 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First British edition. Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The book features Miss Marple. It was the last Christie novel, published posthumously, although not the last one Christie wrote featuring Miss Marple. The story is set in the 1930s, though written during the Second World War. She aids a young couple who choose to uncover events in the wife's past life, and not let sleeping murder lie. Newlywed Gwenda Reed travels ahead of her husband to find a home for them on the south coast of England. In a short time, she finds and buys Hillside, a large old house that feels just like home. She re-opens the view to the sea from the terrace and renovates with new bathrooms and improved kitchen,… Read More

Arbor House Pub Co, 1971-06. Hardcover. Good. Older Dell PB

SCHERZ, 1962. paperback. gebraucht, gut *** DIE SCHWARZEN KRIMINALROMANE (BROSCHIERT) - BAND: 129 (4. Auflage 1965) *** ALTERSBEDINGTE GEBRAUCHSSPUREN *** .

EDITO-SERVICE, 1982. 1.. softcover.

DELL BOOKS, 04/1974. 1.. softcover.

London : Collins for The Crime Club, [1950]. First British paperback edition. A Christie curiosity, a detective story set in ancient Egypt. First published in the UK in 1945 and here in the attractive Collins "White Circle" format. Crown 8vo (18cm). 160pp. Original wrappers; a few very minor signs of age and use, text lightly tanned, but a very good copy.

ULLSTEIN, LEOPOLD, 1968. 1.. softcover. Hercule Poirot KRIMI

London & Sydney: For the Crime Club by Collins: 1950.. First Australian Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 256; bound in publishers mustard cloth, title lettered in black on spine, dustjacket chipped and worn several small pieces missing, fair copy. The 50th novel of Agatha Christie.

SCHERZ, 1961. 5.. softcover.

BERTELSMANN, CARL, 1961?. 1.. hardcover.

FONTANA BOOKS, 1959. 1.. softcover. Miss Jane Marple

London: Samuel French Limited, [circa 1990]. [Drama] CENTENARY EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 70 [4]. Publisher's yellow paper covers, illustrated to upper, reproducing the original from 1954. With a photogravure plate showing the set. Internally bright and clean. Minor crease to upper. A fine copy. First performed in 1952, The Mousetrap would become the longest running West End show of all time. This edition from 1990 marked the centenary of the birth of Agatha Christie.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1973. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.254 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green photographic dust-jacket. A very good, used copy with no inscriptions, edges a little dusty/toned, jacket shows some handling and wear to extremities, light soiling, a few creases to the laminate, price clipped. The final original novel to be published during the author's lifetime, 'Postern of Fate' finds series favourites Tommy and Tuppence Beresford back in action.

London: William Collins, 2011. [Crime Mystery] FACSIMILE EDITION, First thus (no later printings stated). Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.237; [3]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black. With the illustrated facsimile dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Absolutely fine/as new. The definitive Christie mystery; widely regarded as one of the most influential crime novels ever written, and often considered the author's masterpiece.

London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. [Crime Mystery Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 227 [5]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £13.99. Some spotting to edges (mostly to top edge), dated ink name to flyleaf. Near fine. A collection of eight short stories, including four published in the UK in book-form for the first time.

Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1960. [Crime Short Stories] DUTCH FILM TIE-IN. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.181 [3]. Publisher's orange and cream paper over boards, with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket showing a still from the film of the same name starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton (1957), not priced. Heavily browned to low-quality paper. Some wear to extremities, with the jacket showing browning to spine, as well as moderate rubbing and chipping to edges. Very good.

London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1951. [Modern Literature] VINTAGE HARDCOVER REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.192. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 2/- to spine. Tearing to rear pastedown away from board causing some shakiness, spotting to preliminaries, toning and spotting to edges of textblock, toning internally, spotting to spine, some spotting to jacket visible on flaps and reverse, some wear/rubbing to jacket. Very good. A murdered government agent leaves a cryptic message, which Tommy and Tuppence Beresford must decipher; this is the third of five cases for the adventurous detective pair. This novel was first published in 1941 and this vintage hardcover reprint was produce ten years later in 1951 by the Collins Crime Club.

London: William Collins, 2012. [Crime Mystery] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black. With the illustrated dust-jacket. A clean, fine copy. Guests expecting a party game of murder at a country retreat are horrified to discover a real corpse, and another case for Miss Jane Marple ensues.