Agatha Christie - Nemesis - First Edition

CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976).

Nemesis.

London: The Crime Club, 1971.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket either printed price of £1.50 net to front flap.

Internally clean, a tiny amount of spotting and marking to edges and endpapers. Lightly bruised to foot of the spine. Dust-jacket shows well, price partly struck through in pen, a little rubbed and creased, some marks to outer panels with a faint ring mark to upper. Very good.

'Our code word my dear lady, is Nemesis.' Miss Jane Marple sat in the big armchair by the fireplace in her house at St Mary Mead, and repeated the sentence softly under her breath. It was part of a letter - an unusual letter from an unusual man. The man who had written the letter was dead. She had read the announcement of his death more than a week ago...