Cover creasing, soiling, and scuffing, minor edge wear, last few pages have rippling, likely from moisture. Text is clean and unmarked. A decent reading copy. ; Pocket Books 50449, first U. S. Paperback printing. ; 5" - 6" Tall; 176 pages; "'Would you like to see a picture of a murderer? ' So asks a stranger of Miss Jane Marple while she is vacationing on luxurious St. Honore. Before she has a chance to answer, the mystery man vanishes, only to be found dead the following day. Now Miss Marple is asking the questions: What happened to the curious photo? Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares?... View More...
Front cover has a crease in center, starting at bottom edge extending half-way up cover. Corners bumped, front cover bowed out, text clean and bright. "'Would you like to see a picture of a murderer?' So asks a stranger of Miss Jane Marple while she is vacationing on luxurious St. Honore. Before she has a chance to answer, the mystery man vanishes, only to be found dead the following day. Now Miss Marple is asking the questions: What happened to the curious photo? Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares? Why doesn't the most-talked-about guest, a reclusive millionaire, ever leave his ro... View More...
Spine slanted, somewhat creased, light reading crease, a little edge wear and rubbing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; Bantam J2423, 167 pp. ; Hercule Poirot; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 167 pages; "It started when wealthy Simeon Lee called his sons and their wives together on Christmas Eve and told them he was drawing up a new will. It ended horribly a few hours later as his children sat around the dinner table-their meal interrupted by a blood-chilling scream coming from the old man's bedroom. . . For the visiting Hercule Poirot, it would be no holiday from murd... View More...
Spine, covers a bit creased, corners bumped, minor shelf wear, slightly shelf-cocked. ; 6" - 7" Tall; "The murdered man's widow was an alluring woman. Adele Fortescue's appeal was obvious, not subtle. It simply said to every man, 'Here am I. I'm a woman.' She spoke and moved and breathed sex. "'I've been trying to get in touch with you since this morning,' Inspector Neele said. 'Your husband was taken to St. Jude's Hospital. ' "'You don't mean - he isn't - dead? ' She fumbled with her bag, pulled out a handkerchief and sobbed in a manner that was almost convincing. "'I'... View More...
Spine slightly creased, corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ; Miss Jane Marple; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 182 pages; "The murdered man's widow was an alluring woman. Adele Fortescue's appeal was obvious, not subtle. It simply said to every man, 'Here am I. I'm a woman.' She spoke and moved and breathed sex. "'I've been trying to get in touch with you since this morning,' Inspector Neele said. 'Your husband was taken to St. Jude's Hospital. ' "'You don't mean - he isn't - dead? ' She fumbled with her bag, pulled out a handkerchief and sobbed in a manner t... View More...
Red boards with gold lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear. An attractive copy. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 131 pages;
44 puzzles based entirely on the works of Agatha Christie. There are 20 American-style crosswords, 16 British-style crosswords, and 8 other puzzles. Each puzzle is based on a single novel or collection. Answers are provided at the end. A delight for mystery loving crossword fans. View More...
Dell #6780. Spine slightly slanted, edgewear, corners slightly bumped, worn at spine ends. Text starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked. "They were out after Alistair Blunt, the magnate in the shadows who said yes or no to governments, the Prime Minister's financial prop -- and a man who at the moment was defenseless in his dentist's chair. They missed Blunt and shot the dentist instead. Then came a bomb in Blunt's mail and a sniper in his garden. Racing against time and the snowballing strength of a terrible conspiracy, Hercule Poirot is summoned to keep the one man alive who could... View More...
Spine a bit slanted, corners chipped, minor edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. ; Also published as Ten Little Indians. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 204 pages;
"Perhaps the greatest mystery novel of all time, 'And Then There Were None' is Agatha Christie's acclaimed masterpiece of murder and suspense. Ten strangers are gathered together on an isolated island by a mysterious host. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die. . . " View More...
Corners bumped, slight edge wear, store sticker on back cover. A fairly tight, attractive copy. ; While not stated, the print here is larger than normal. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 290 pages; "Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his 'little grey cells' one more deliciously deductive time: An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a... View More...
"There was nothing remarkable about Mrs. Lancaster's departure from the Sunny Ridge establishment for elderly ladies. Except for the painting she left behind - and a single, disturbing question that echoed in Tuppence Beresford's mind. . . Tommy and Tuppence Beresford never looked for danger, but it always found them nonetheless. How could they know that a dreadful secret from the past was all too murderously alive?"; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View More...
Spine slightly slanted, slightly creased, corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ; Pocket 50440, Postcard advertisement tipped in for 'Famous Writers School.' Do you think they're still sending out their Aptitude Tests? ; Hercule Poirot; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 216 pages; "'You seem to have explanations for everything, M. Poirot! '"'That, said Inspector Kelsey with a slightly malicious smile, 'is his specialty.' "And fortunate it was that M. Poirot had been called in on the case. Three people were already dead. Neither the local police, nor the intelligen... View More...
Brown cloth, gold lettering, 192 pp, 8 pp of b/w photos. Spine cocked, corners bumped, slight edge wear. interior bright and clean. Jacket has a little edge wear and some darkening to the flaps. An attractive copy. "For many years before World War II, Agatha Christie accompanied her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan, on his expeditions in Iraq and Syria. Here, in a most unusual kind of travel book, she has written an informal and witty description of how you lived when digging up the past in the Middle East. " "Join the great mystery writer as she boards the Orient Express ... View More...
The rich old man was dead. Who in his sumptuous household had poisoned him? His young wife-now richer than ever and fancy free? His sons-now cut off without a shilling? His granddaughters-now very likely to come into an inheritance? Or his grandchildren's manly tutor? (Now wouldn't it be lovely-and lucrative-to comfort the beautiful young widow!; 6" - 7" Tall View More...
067180720X Spine/covers somewhat creased, slight spine slant, corners bumped, some edge wear, rubbing. A clean, tight copy. ; Hercule Poirot; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; After a year apart Hercule Poirot, now crippled with arthritis, is reunited with his old companion Captain Hastings, who has since become a widower. When they receive a letter from Styles Court, the place where they solved their first murder together, it seems like fate and they readily accept. However, after the great detective brands one of the seemingly harmless guests, whom he will only identify as 'X', a ruthless serial kille... View More...
0671479857 Spine a bit slanted, somewhat creased, minor edge wear, light reading crease, some cover creasing and rubbing. Reading copy. ; Hercule Poirot; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 280 pages; After a year apart Hercule Poirot, now crippled with arthritis, is reunited with his old companion Captain Hastings, who has since become a widower. When they receive a letter from Styles Court, the place where they solved their first murder together, it seems like fate and they readily accept. However, after the great detective brands one of the seemingly harmless guests, whom he will only identify as 'X', ... View More...
A little edge wear and rubbing, reading crease and some cover creasing, 1/2" chip at base of spine. Pages tanned but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; Dell 2144. ; Hercule Poirot; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 191 pages; "A mansion made for murder ... Confronts that suave master sleuth, Hercule Poirot, and the inimitable Miss Jane Marple, as they match wits with as cunning and deadly a killing crew as Agatha Christie has ever assembled. In tales that range from the sinister streets of London to the terror-shadowed English countryside to a bizarre chamber of horror in Paris, you are ... View More...
0425067823 Spine a bit slanted, slightly creased, corners chipped, minor edge wear, sticker on front cover. A little cover creasing and soiling. A good reading copy. ; Hercule Poirot; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 212 pages; "On a ragged cliff overlooking the sea, two lovers had walked . . . And died violently, their last moments shrouded in mystery. Decades later, lovely young Celia Ravenscroft's life -- and love -- hung on those moments, now buried in the dust of time. Had her parents really been suicides -- or had they been brutally murdered? The incomparable Hercule Poirot followed twisted... View More...
Spine a bit slanted, creased, minor edge wear and chipping, a little cover creasing and rubbing. A number of pages are a bit wavy, indicating some dampness at some point. A solid reading copy. ; Corners bumped, a little edge wear, small dark area on front board, binding fairly tight. Jacket has minor edge wear, some darkening, spine is sunned. A nice copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 181 pages; "The site of the house called The Towers had once been known as Gipsy's Acre. When it was sold, Michael Rogers went to the auction, though he hadn't any money. His dream was of a new house on the ol... View More...
Spine/covers slightly creased, slight shelf wear, corners bumped. Arlena Marshall's appearance on the beach had all the importance of a stage entrance. She wore a simple backless white bathing suit and every inch of her exposed body was tanned a beautiful shade of bronze. Her hair was a rich flaming auburn. There was something about her that made every other woman on the beach seem faded, and that drew the eye of every male-except her husband. The Reverend Stephen Lane turned to Hercule Poirot and said: "That woman is evil through and through. Don't you feel the presence of Evil all... View More...