Mrs. McGinty's Dead de Christie, Agatha - 1993-01-01

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 1993 (1952) * Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing a bottle of Swan Ink. Yellow & white titles to spine & face. No shelf wear to edges or to corners. Head & tail of spine lightly scuffed, dished & very lightly creased. Slight marks. VG.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. No darkening or marks to edges. Lightly used. VG++ * Illustrations: B/w photo portrait of author to inside of front cover.* Pages: 233 pp. text. vii pp. ads at rear.* Description:- Superintendent Spence informs Hercule Poirot of the case of Mrs McGinty, an elderly charwoman, apparently killed by her lodger, James Bentley, for her savings of £30, which she kept under a floorboard. Bentley is convicted and is to be executed for the crime, but Spence does not think he is guilty. Poirot agrees to go to the town of Broadhinny and investigate the murder further. This novel was first published in the UK as a book by Collins Crime Club in 1952.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/3rd thus. with minimal age & wear reducing it to VG.*