Hercule Poirot’s Christmas.
"He'd always meant to do what he was going to do. Yes, he'd go on with it!": First edition of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot's Christmas; in the rare original dust jacket
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas.
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
Item Number: 122461
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1939.
First edition of Christie’s classic Poirot mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the scarce original dust jacket with some expert restoration.
Christie's Hercule Poirot's Christmas was first published in the United Kingdom by Collins Crime Club on December 19, 1938 (although the first edition is copyright dated 1939) and subsequently in the U.S. by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1939 under the title of Murder for Christmas. The book was well-received upon publication, Isaac Anderson of The New York Times Book Review concluded, "Poirot has solved some puzzling mysteries in his time, but never has his mighty brain functioned more brilliantly than in Murder for Christmas".
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