THE A.B.C. MURDERS: A NEW POIROT MYSTERY
$5,500 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1936. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in dark green on spine and front cover; beige endpapers; yellow topstain; dustjacket; x,306,[4]pp. Crown gently nudged, hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. In the green variant dustjacket (one of two color variants, with no established priority), unclipped (priced $2.00), showing some trivial wear to extremities; very Near Fine. Poirot is challenged to work out the connection between an apparently motiveless series of murders carried out in different parts of the country, with the killer dropping the detective clues involving the English alphabet. "It is a challenge which initially perplexes him but to which he rises in due course in magnificent fashion" (Wagstaff & Poole, p.111). Basis for Frank Tashlin's 1965 film The Alphabet Murders, starring Tony Randall as Poirot, Anika Ekberg, and Robert Morley as Captain Hastings. 8434.
- Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
- Year: 1936
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: unknown
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