Agatha Christie – A Murder Is Announced – First UK Edition 1950
£750.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘A Murder Is Announced’ by Agatha Christie, published by Collins in 1950. Publisher’s red boards with black lettering to the spine. Slight softening to the head and tail of the spine otherwise a very good (or better) copy with neat gift inscription to the front endpaper. In a very good neatly clipped dust wrapper with some v-shaped loss to the spine tips and corners. Small repair to the centre of the spine. Creasing. A very presentable copy of a rare book.
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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A first edition, first printing of ‘A Murder Is Announced’ by Agatha Christie, published by Collins in 1950. Publisher’s red boards with black lettering to the spine. Slight softening to the head and tail of the spine otherwise a very good (or better) copy with neat gift inscription to the front endpaper. In a very good neatly clipped dust wrapper with some v-shaped loss to the spine tips and corners. Small repair to the centre of the spine. Creasing. A very presentable copy of a rare book.
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.”
