Third Girl -
Agatha Christie
1966 - The Crime Club by Collins, London - First Edition
An exquisitely bound first edition in which three single girls share a London flat: a secretary, an artist, and a third girl, who thinks she might have killed someone. With rumours of revolvers, flick-knives, and blood stains, it will take all of Poirot’s tenacity to establish whether this perplexed girl is guilty, innocent, or insane.
‘Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?’
‘There is the usual double-take surprise solution centring round a perhaps rather artificial identity problem; but the suspense holds up all the way. Dialogue and characters are lively as flies. After this, I shan't be a bit surprised to see A.C. wearing a mini-skirt’ – The Observer. One of Poirot’s final appearances, with a great number of amusing references to his age and the fact that he is now not so well known as a detective, given that the world has entered the Swinging Sixties. Ariadne Oliver and Miss Lemon also feature.
Dame Agatha Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (1890-1976) - the first of the really distinguished women writers in the field of detective fiction.
References: Haycraft, Murder for Pleasure 129. Harpercollins, web. Wagstaff & Poole, A Christie Bibliography, . Cooper & Pike, Detective Fiction, 82-89.
Octavo (binding size 19.5x13.2cm), pp. [4] 256 [2]. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in full green morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of dagger, pistol, moustache and knitting needles tooled as the four corner-pieces, and all edges gilt. Original cloth spine and upper bound in at rear. Condition: Fine in fine binding. Ref: 112119 Price: HK$ 4,500
‘Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?’
‘There is the usual double-take surprise solution centring round a perhaps rather artificial identity problem; but the suspense holds up all the way. Dialogue and characters are lively as flies. After this, I shan't be a bit surprised to see A.C. wearing a mini-skirt’ – The Observer. One of Poirot’s final appearances, with a great number of amusing references to his age and the fact that he is now not so well known as a detective, given that the world has entered the Swinging Sixties. Ariadne Oliver and Miss Lemon also feature.
Dame Agatha Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (1890-1976) - the first of the really distinguished women writers in the field of detective fiction.
References: Haycraft, Murder for Pleasure 129. Harpercollins, web. Wagstaff & Poole, A Christie Bibliography, . Cooper & Pike, Detective Fiction, 82-89.
Octavo (binding size 19.5x13.2cm), pp. [4] 256 [2]. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in full green morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of dagger, pistol, moustache and knitting needles tooled as the four corner-pieces, and all edges gilt. Original cloth spine and upper bound in at rear. Condition: Fine in fine binding. Ref: 112119 Price: HK$ 4,500