The Hollow

by Christie, Agatha

First edition

Price: $550.00
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London: Collins (The Crime Club), 1946. First edition. Near Fine/near fine. A virtually Fine copy (a bit of fading to the head and heel of the spine and through the spine emblem, minimal foxing and expected dust soiling to page edges, tiny wear spots to board corners) in a Near Fine dust jacket (light wear, tiny chips to corners of front panel) of Agatha Christie´s novel, "THE HOLLOW", was first published in 1946, by Collins of London. A country manor house mystery, the book reintroduced Detective Hercule Poirot (a character that Christie did not like and whose appearance in this novel she particularly disliked) after he had been absent from her novels for about four years. In the novel, Dr. John Christow and his wife plain wife, Gerda, among others, are invited by Lucy Angkatell to spend the weekend at her country house, The Hollow. On the morning set for their departure, Christow allows his young daughter to tell is fortune with cards. Her drawing of the death card matters not to to the unfaithful husband, but then....... One of Poirot's more challenging cases. A very nice copy of a classic Christie mystery.

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