Crooked House -
Agatha Christie
1949 - Published for The Crime Club by Collins, London - First English Edition
‘Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them’ – Chief Inspector Taverner.
Three generations of the Leonides family have live under the same roof of Three Gables, a large household over which the very old and very rich Aristide Leonides has long presided. However he was murdered by a poisoner, perhaps a member of his own family?
Agatha Christie once said ‘Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.’ First published in New York by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949 and in London by the Collins Crime Club on May 23 of the same year.
References: Wagstaff & Poole. Cooper & Pike, Detective Fiction 82. Agatha Christie, web. Agatha Christy Fandom, web.
Octavo (binding size 19.1x13cm), pp. [2] 192. Elegantly hand-bound in three-quarter tan calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth spine bound in at rear. Condition: Fine but for very light spotting to first few pages, in fine binding. Ref: 111959 Price: HK$ 5,000
Three generations of the Leonides family have live under the same roof of Three Gables, a large household over which the very old and very rich Aristide Leonides has long presided. However he was murdered by a poisoner, perhaps a member of his own family?
Agatha Christie once said ‘Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.’ First published in New York by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949 and in London by the Collins Crime Club on May 23 of the same year.
References: Wagstaff & Poole. Cooper & Pike, Detective Fiction 82. Agatha Christie, web. Agatha Christy Fandom, web.
Octavo (binding size 19.1x13cm), pp. [2] 192. Elegantly hand-bound in three-quarter tan calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth spine bound in at rear. Condition: Fine but for very light spotting to first few pages, in fine binding. Ref: 111959 Price: HK$ 5,000