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Ordeal by Innocence
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good-
- Seller
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Cave Creek, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Dodd, Mead and Company publishers. 1958 Very nice first edition book in original boards and original dust jacket. Not ex-lib, no ownership marks. Pages are clean, tight and complete. Dust jacket has small loss to top and bottom spine affecting the publisher's name on bottom. Some small additional loss on bottom back cover and edges. Cover once creamy is now a bit browned. Overall a very nice book in mostly complete jacket.
Synopsis
While serving a sentence for killing his mother - a crime he insisted he didn't commit - Jacko Argyle dies in prison. Two years later, the man who could have supported Jacko's alibi suddenly turns up. It appears that Jacko was innocent... and that the murderer is part of the surviving family.The novel was first published in 1958 by William Collins Son & Co. in London, and in 1959 by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. It was filmed in 1984 by Golan-Gobus Productions in England starring Donald Sutherland, Sarah Miles and Christopher Plummer. The film adheres closely to the novel. The New York Times described the novel as one of Christie's most engaging works. "Characteristically surprising, trickily constructed and yet firmly based in character..."This book is dedicated, "To Billy Collins with affection and gratitude." It was he who lured Christie from the Bodley Head, which published her first six books, to Williams Collins Sons & Co in 1926. Now known as HarperCollins this company is UK publisher of Christie's books to this day. An adaptation of tihs novel was broadcast, with the addition of Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple, in 2007.
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- Bookseller
- Under the Covers Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31
- Title
- Ordeal by Innocence
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Format/Binding
- Original Red cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1958
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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I sell mainly mysteries. Mostly vintage but some more modern.
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