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Agatha Christie – Ordeal By Innocence – First UK Edition 1958
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First edition, first printing of Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie, published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1958. This is a near fine copy, free from internal inscriptions, in original publisher’s crimson cloth bound boards, some fading and damp-staining to the spine, slight pushing to the head and foot of the spine, pushing to the corners and browning to the text block. The near fine unclipped wrapper with minor chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of the front and rear flap folds, browning and spotting throughout.
A crucial witness is unaware of his role as such until two years after a man is found guilty of a murder. When he realises the information he holds, he reopens the pain of loss in a family, and reopens the question of who was the murderer two years ago.
This novel received mixed reviews at the time of publication, as reviewers were not generally comfortable with the psychological aspects of the story. The plot had her “customary ingenuity” but lacked “blitheness” and was “much too like an attempt at psychological fiction”.
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First edition, first printing of Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie, published by Collins Crime Club in London, 1958. This is a near fine copy, free from internal inscriptions, in original publisher’s crimson cloth bound boards, some fading and damp-staining to the spine, slight pushing to the head and foot of the spine, pushing to the corners and browning to the text block. The near fine unclipped wrapper with minor chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of the front and rear flap folds, browning and spotting throughout.
A crucial witness is unaware of his role as such until two years after a man is found guilty of a murder. When he realises the information he holds, he reopens the pain of loss in a family, and reopens the question of who was the murderer two years ago.
This novel received mixed reviews at the time of publication, as reviewers were not generally comfortable with the psychological aspects of the story. The plot had her “customary ingenuity” but lacked “blitheness” and was “much too like an attempt at psychological fiction”.
