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New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company. 1933. [Murder Mystery] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm) pp.[x]; 305; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth heavily blocked in black, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at $2.00. Modest soiling to cloth, a trace of a small rubber stamp on endpapers, else a fine, tight copy in dust jacket, which has light wear to spine tips and corners. A very scarce title, especially in dust jacket. A Hercule Poirot mystery, published in the U.K. as Lord Edgware Dies.

When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen visiting him just before his death and Hercule Poirot has been hired to solve the case.