Agatha Christie - 4.50 From Paddington - First Edition

CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976).

4.50 From Paddington.

London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins, 1957.

FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of 12 s. 6d. net to front flap.

Quite heavily toned to edges, some offset toning to endpapers. Cloth shows well, just slightly pushed to spine ends. Dust-jacket toned to spine, some chips and small closed tears to extremities, rubbed to folds. An attractive copy. Very good.

Having done her Christmas shopping, Mrs. McGillicuddy relaxes happily in a train. Then another train, going in the same direction, draws abreast and for some minutes the two trains proceed side by side. Tat has happened to all of us. But in a first class carriage of the second train, Mrs. McGillicuddy sees, to her horror, a man strangling a woman... Then the second train gathers speed and vanishes into the night. Miss Marple investigates...