N or M ? (Great Pan Edn G259).

SOFTBACK "GREAT PAN G259," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1959.* Publisher: PAN Books Ltd. * Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers (different to the stock photo,) showing seven faces and a question mark. The face has a black title on a yellow label. Yellow title to red spine strip. No bumps, minimal rubs to edges of slightly dished spine strip. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to boards. No creases to spine or hinge. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Some acid browning to the paper throughout especially to the page edges. VG* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 189 pp. text. iii pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- This book was first published in the UK in 1941 by The Collins Crime Club. The title is taken from a catechism in the Book of Common Prayer which asks, "What is your Christian name? Answer N. or M?" The "N. or M." here stands for the Latin, "nomen vel nomina", meaning "name or names". It is an accident of typography that "nomina" came to be represented by "m". The novel is the first to feature the mature versions of her detectives Tommy and Tuppence, whose previous appearances had been in the adventure The Secret Adversary (1922) and the short story collection Partners in Crime (1929).* This is a VG copy of the genuine 1st./1st. thus with some age but minimal shelf wear.*