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Partners in Crime

by CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)

$1,210 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London: Collins, 1929. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252; [4], advertisements. Publisher's black cloth with titles in red to spine and upper, ruled in red. With pictorial facsimile dust-jacket, produced by Facsimile Dust Jackets LLC. Foxing to fore-edge. Cloth is fresh with no wear to spine ends. Near fine. Christie's tenth crime book and her second original collection of stories which includes an appearance by Christie's husband and wife team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. It is a rather enjoyable work for connoisseurs of the genre, as Christie writes each story in the style of another detective, including Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, her own Hercule Poirot, and Dr Thorndyke, amongst others. Wagstaff and Poole, pp.56-57.

  • Publisher: London: Collins, 1929
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: unknown

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