Agatha Christie

A finely bound set of the crime novels of Agatha Christie.

• Sold as a set of 24 volumes.
• Agatha Christie (English).
• London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969-1972.
• Octavo.
• Bound in red half calf, with raised bands ruled in gilt, twin black title labels lettered in gilt, matching red cloth over boards, top edges gilt.

This impressive collection was issued over a two-year period and is complete as published. It includes all her published crime novels up to 1971, with a new foreword by the author in the first volume. Known originally as one of the four Queens of Crime, Christie’s prominence has grown to the point where to many she simply is The Queen. This collection features many novels that changed the face of the crime genre, and are regarded as masterpieces of fiction.

Contents:

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder at The Vicarage, A Murder is Announced, Murder is Easy, The ABC Murders, Murder in The Mews, Murder in Mesopotamia, Murder on the Links, Lord Edgeware Dies, Mrs McGinty’s Dead, Dead Man’s Folly, The Hound of Death, Appointment with Death, Death on The Nile, Death in The Clouds, Death Comes as the End, Peril at End House, Crooked House, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Poirot’s Christmas, Poirot Investigates, Parker Pyne Investigates, They Do it with Mirrors, The Mirror Crack’d, The Clocks, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, A Caribbean Mystery, The Mystery of The Blue Train, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Third Girl, The Big Four, The Thirteen Problems, Towards Zero, Three Act Tragedy, The Hollow, The Moving Finger, 4.50 From Paddington, Passenger to Frankfurt, Evil Under the Sun, At Bertram’s Hotel, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans, Dumb Witness, Taken at The Flood, They Came to Baghdad, Sparkling Cyanide, The Secret of Chimneys, After the Funeral, The Body in The Library, Halloween Party, The Pale Horse, The Secret Adversary, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, The Mysterious Mr Quin, Endless Night, The Man in The Brown Suit, Ordeal by Innocence, One, Two Buckle my Shoe, Cards On the Table, N or M?, Cat Among the Pigeons, The Labours of Hercules, Hickory Dickory Dock, Partners in Crime, Sad Cypress, Nemesis, A Pocketful of Rye and Destination Unknown.