Agatha Christie — Crooked House

London, The Crime Club by Collins , 1949. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling familial murder-mystery - a standalone from Agatha Christie. First edition. Preceded by the U.S. first published two months prior.Complete with the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. This classic Christie murder-mystery centres around three generations of the Leonides family, who live together under wealthy patriarch Aristide. After Aristide is poisoned by his own eye medicine, his granddaughter Sophia tells narrator and fiance Charles Hayward that they cannot marry until the killer is apprehended.From prolific "Queen of Crime" Agatha Christie, who said the titles of this novel and Ordeal by Innocence were her favourites amongst her own works. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart indeed, with light shelf wear causing fading to the edges of the cloth. Dust wrapper is lightly edge worn, otherwise very smart. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.