DEATH COMES AS THE END

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh with thin slivers of fading to the extreme upper edge. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears and a few tiny chips at the spine. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the front flap).

A groundbreaking novel, Christie anticipating the modern popularity of historical detective fiction sets her impeccably researched murder plot in Ancient Egypt. (Hubin; Wagstaff & Poole; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).