By the Pricking of My Thumbs.
"It’s the Lord’s will that I should kill you. So that makes it all right": First Edition of By the Pricking of My Thumbs; Inscribed by Agatha Christie
By the Pricking of My Thumbs.
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
$9,200.00
Item Number: 146507
London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins, 1968.
First edition of this thrilling Tommy and Tuppence Beresford detective novel. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Helen [Gilbertson] With best wishes for Xmas from Agatha Christie.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill. Housed in a custom full tan morocco slipcase with chemise by M.J. Adjarian. From the Richard Manney collection. An exceptional example.
First published in 1968 by the Collins Crime Club, 'By the Pricking of My Thumbs' is the third novel featuring detectives Tommy and Tuppence and their fourth appearance as recurring characters in the works of Agatha Christie. Divided into four books, the story follows a middle-aged Tommy and Tuppence as they investigate a mysterious house and its inhabitants' secrets. In Christie's words, this work is "dedicated to the many readers in this and in other countries who write to me asking: ‘What has happened to Tommy and Tuppence? What are they doing now?"
