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Agatha Christie – Complete Set of the Collected Edition by Hamlyn – 24 Volumes – 72 Novels.
Short Description
Published by Hamlyn, London various dates as issued in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Uniform octavo, over 12,000 pages. Nicely bound in decorated black cloth covered boards with gilt adornment and titles, super headbands, all top edges stained red as required. Each covered in the original “Crime Themed” dust jackets of the period .. now all protected in removeable Brodart. Very good condition, the tiniest bit of age to a couple, all clean as a whistle internally … as fine a set as you could find.
To be read over a lifetime … maybe twice. Comprising …
1. 4:50 From Paddington; Lord Edgware Dies; Murder in Mesopotamia;
2. Sparkling Cyanide; The Secret of Chimney; Five Little Pigs;
3. A Caribbean Mystery; Taken at the Flood; The Seven Dials Mystery;
4. Evil under the Sun; Death Comes as the End; The Sittaford Mystery;
5. Ordeal by Innocence; One, Two, Buckle my Shoe; The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding;
6. Partners in Crime; At Bertram s Hotel; The Hound of Death;
7. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; They Do It With Mirrors; Mrs. McGinty s Dead;
8. The Clocks; Third Girl; Murder in the Mews;
9. Halloween Party; Passenger to Frankfurt; The Thirteen Problems;
10. The Hollow; The Moving Finger; Three Act Tragedy;
11. The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Ten Little Ni*****s; Dumb Witness;
12. Appointment with Death; Crooked House; Sad Cypress;
13. The Pale Horse; The Big Four; The Secret Adversary;
14. Cat Among the Pigeons; The Labours of Hercules; Hickory Dickory Dock;
15. Nemesis; Parker Pyne Investigates; Poirot Investigates;
16. Death on the Nile; Towards Zero; After the Funeral;
17. By the Pricking of My Thumbs; The Mysterious Mr. Quin; Endless Night;
18. Peril at End House; The Body in the Library; Hercule Poirot’s Christmas;
19. Murder is Easy; Dead Man s Folly; The Man in the Brown Suit;
20. The Mirror Crack d from Side to Side; They Came to Baghdad; The ABC Murders;
21. Murder on the Orient Express; Death in the Clouds; Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?;
22. The Mystery of the Blue Train; The Listerdale Mystery; The Murder at the Vicarage;
23. The Murder on the Links; A Pocket Full of Rye; Destination Unknown;
24. Cards on the Table; N or M; A Murder is Announced.
Total weight packed is approaching 20 kgs so we will have to quote postage to any buyers location. We always pack well and find the best mailing arrangement for all our customers.
Agatha Christie simply the best complete set.