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The Secret of Chimneys:The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection
by Christie, Agatha
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0553350641
- ISBN 13
- 9780553350647
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About This Item
Bantam Books/Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1987. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Bantam Books, Inc. 1987. Third Printing. Hardcover Book As New. No jacket, as issued. The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection which was published between June 1982 and October 2000. The Black Leatherette Collection. Black leatherette with gilt titles to spine, gilt silhouette portrait front decoration, marbled, colored, feather endpapers. Sewn binding. Except for the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976) is the best selling novelist of all time, selling over 2 billion copies of her books. She is best known for her 66 detective novels featuring those well-known fictional 'detectives', Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. 232 pp. 8vo. 1987, Bantam Books/Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Groups. ISBN10: 0553350641, ISBN13: 9780553350647
Synopsis
The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. It introduces the characters of, among others, Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028740
- Title
- The Secret of Chimneys:The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection
- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0553350641
- ISBN 13
- 9780553350647
- Publisher
- Bantam Books/Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- MYSTERY BRITISH MYSTERIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Mystery, British & Other Countries;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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