The ABC Murders
Price: $3,000.00
Hard Cover. London: The Crime Club, 1936. First Edition. About Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
First edition, first printing. Publisher's orange cloth, with spine lettered in black; lacking the scarce original dust jacket. About near fine, with some toning and a touch of soiling to spine, offsetting to endpapers, and light occasional spotting to pages. Overall, a pleasing, sturdy copy of this hard-to-find 1930s Christie title. In The ABC Murders, an alliterative murderer is on the loose, killing Alice Ascher, Betty Barnard, and Sir Carmichael Clarke, in that order. Detective Hercule Poirot, who receives a mysterious letter signed "A.B.C." before each murder, must race to solve the confounding case. New York Times book reviewer Isaac Anderson writes, "This story is a baffler of the first water, written in Agatha Christie's best manner. It seems to us the very best thing she has done, not even excepting Roger Ackroyd." In 2018, a three-part BBC miniseries based on the novel was released, starring John Malkovich as Poirot and Rupert Grint as Inspector Crome. Item #AC112
