CHRISTIE, Agatha
The Thirteen Problems
The Thirteen Problems
London: The Crime Club by Collins, [1960]
Illustrated by
Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems. Rarer, later (likely second) hardback edition. Red binding presenting excellently in original dust jacket. 250 numbered pages in total. Boards clean with extremely minimal marks. Some bumping to spine tips and corners, and a small ding to top of front board. A pen mark and some tanning to the text block. Spotting to the preliminary pages. Ex-library sticker on the inside cover. Small pen inscription on front free endpaper "6D". Some small marks and signs of foxing inside; please see photos. In a very good, unclipped dust wrapper with minimal chipping to the head and base of the spine and corners, and minimal creasing. Spotting is present to both front and rear panels. Within, content is clean, legible and the book is complete.
Thirteen stories featuring the amateur detective Miss Marple, her nephew Raymond West, and her friend Sir Henry Clithering. They are the earliest stories Christie wrote about Miss Marple. The main setting for the frame story is the fictional village of St Mary Mead.
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