Agatha Christie — The Pale Horse

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1962 . First edition. Cloth. Very scarce in all early US editions, this is a fine example of the second US printing of Agatha Christie's thrilling murder mystery, with a somewhat supernatural theme. The second printing of the very scarce first US edition of Christie's novel, which was first published the year prior in the UK.In the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.Christie's thrilling mystery follows the narrator Mark Easterbrook as he investigates a list of names and the death of a Catholic Priest. With a small appearance from Christie's novelist detective Ariadne Oliver.This novel is notable among Christie's books as it is credited with having saved at least two lives, after readers recognised the symptoms of thallium poisoning from the description in the book. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally fine. Dust wrapper fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.