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Agatha Christie – A Murder Is Announced – First UK Edition 1950
£675.00
First edition, first printing of ‘A Murder is Announced’ by Agatha Christie. Published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1950. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper is bright on the front panel and suffers a little chipping to the spine tips and corners. It has not been clipped – some internal repairs to the spine tips. The internal pages are bright, clean and free from previous owners inscriptions. The boards are free from chips and marks, are tight. Overall, this is a very good (or better) copy of a rare title. The novel features her detective Jane Marple. The murder is announced in advance a local newspaper in a small village; Miss Marple is staying at a spa hotel there for treatment. She works with Inspector Craddock of the county police. It was well-received at publication. Remarks included: “The plot is as ingenious as ever, the writing more careful, the dialogue both wise and witty”; and “Not quite one of her top notchers, but very smooth entertainment”; the murderer was “run to earth in a brilliantly conducted parlour game”; and “This jubilee whodunnit is as deft and ingenious a fabrication as Agatha Christie has contrived in many a year.” A later review was more mixed: “Superb reworking of the standard Christie setting and procedures, marred only by an excess of homicide at the end.”
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First edition, first printing of ‘A Murder is Announced’ by Agatha Christie. Published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1950. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper is bright on the front panel and suffers a little chipping to the spine tips and corners. It has not been clipped – some internal repairs to the spine tips. The internal pages are bright, clean and free from previous owners inscriptions. The boards are free from chips and marks, are tight. Overall, this is a very good (or better) copy of a rare title.
The novel features her detective Jane Marple. The murder is announced in advance a local newspaper in a small village; Miss Marple is staying at a spa hotel there for treatment. She works with Inspector Craddock of the county police. It was well-received at publication. Remarks included: “The plot is as ingenious as ever, the writing more careful, the dialogue both wise and witty”; and “Not quite one of her top notchers, but very smooth entertainment”; the murderer was “run to earth in a brilliantly conducted parlour game”; and “This jubilee whodunnit is as deft and ingenious a fabrication as Agatha Christie has contrived in many a year.” A later review was more mixed: “Superb reworking of the standard Christie setting and procedures, marred only by an excess of homicide at the end.”
