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London: For the Crime Club by Collins, 1933. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252; [4], advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth, titled in black to upper and backstrip. Contents clean. Spine tips lightly worn, scarce original jacket has price excised from spine (sunned beneath), chipped to crown and foot affecting title and imprint, other chips to folds and extremities. Hardly perfect, but a most uncommon survival. A Hercule Poirot murder-mystery, also featuring sidekicks Inspector Japp and Captain Hastings.

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.