Mrs. McGinty’s Dead.
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
Mrs. McGinty’s Dead.
First edition of Agatha Christie's Mrs. McGinty's Dead
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1952.
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First edition of Christie’s classic Hercule Poirot mystery, preceding the first Collins Crime Club edition by one month. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
"This village murder begins among the rural proletariat (cf. Death by Drowning in The Thirteen Problems and the excellent London working-class woman in The Hollow), but after a time it moves toward the better-spoken classes. Poirot suffers in a vividly awful country guesthouse in order to get in with the community and rescue a rather unsatisfactory young man from the gallows. Highly ingenious – at this point she is still able to vary the tricks she plays, not repeat them" (Robert Barnard).
