The Mystery Of The Blue Train, The Agatha Christie Collection, Vol. 12.

Planet Three, 2002-01-01. Reprint.. Hardcover. VG+/GD+/ND. Spare Room Shelf 1 HARDBACK ""PART 12, IN THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COLLECTION SERIES,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Pub: Planet Three Publishing.* Publication Date:- 2002-2004. (1928)* Binding and cover condition: Dark violet blue paper covered boards with small inset colour vignette to the front board showing a cloudy sky and rails running into a sunset, gilt titles to face and to black spine strip. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to boards with heavy dents to lower edges. GD+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper, (as issued).* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Patterned and coloured end papers (dark blue marbling). Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning but slight age to page edges. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 248 pp. text. ix pp. blank at rear.* Description: It was first published in the UK as a book in 1928 by William Collins and Sons. It was first issued in the U.S. in the same year Poirot boards Le Train Bleu, bound for the French Riviera along with a very varied selection of other travellers. One of them an American Heiress called Ruth Kettering, is found murdered overnight and a famous Ruby ?Heart of Fire,? which was recently given to her by her wealthy father, is missing. Poirot investigates and goes against all the clues and suspicions, solving the crime by proving her murderer was someone who was never there!* A VG+ copy with some slight cover wear reducing it to GD+. No dust jacket (as issued).* 0