Murder in the Mews
Agatha Christie
London: Odhams Press Limited, reprint (1938) | printer’s code C338
A collection of short stories featuring Christie’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and originally published by Collins Crime Club in March 1937. Odhams published this title in November 1937 (code C1137) and March 1938 (C338), this copy being their second printing of the book.
Copies of the Crime Club edition complete with a dustwrapper are rare and expensive however the Odhams edition sharing the same dustwrapper artwork by R. H. [Robin Halliday] Macartney provides a cheaper alternative for the collector of pre-war Agatha Christie.
Interestingly, Odhams published Christie’s “The Hound of Death” in 1933 with that being the first edition of the work; Collins Crime Club published their version in 1936.
Hardback in a dustwrapper. 280pp. Size: 7.5 x 5.25 inches approx. (189mm x 130mm).
Dustwrapper dusty and a little grubby in places; some spotting/foxing, mainly to spine; light wear and rubbing to extremities; some short tears and resultant creasing though mostly to bottom edge. Light wear and rubbing to covers at extremities; a touch bruised to corners and spine ends. Scattered foxing throughout but mainly confined to preliminaries and final pages; edges of page-block spotted/foxed with some encroachment onto margins.
Nonetheless, showing age related and handling wear but otherwise a nicely preserved copy – attractive in its dustwrapper.
