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The Pale Horse

by CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976)

$254 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1961. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the distinctive dust-jacket priced 15s. Contents clean, a few spots to edges of text block, no inscriptions, jacket lightly handled with some minor toning/browning to rear panel. A masterful 'strange tale' in which 'The Pale Horse' is the name of both the village pub and a secret organisation which kills by black magic. The successful crime writer Ariadne Oliver (an exaggerated version of Christie herself) is called in to unravel the mysterious happenings... This is the final case (and perhaps the best) for Mrs. Oliver, who first appears with Parker Pyne in two short stories, and in seven full-length novels (six of them with the great detective Hercule Poirot).

  • Publisher: London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1961
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: unknown

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