Dead Man’s Folly.

CHRISTIE, Agatha.

Item Number: 118077

London: Collins Crime Club, 1956.

First edition of this classic Hercule Poirot murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication, “Dorothy, from Agatha Christie Nov. 1956.” The recipient, Dorothy North, was a close friend and integral member of Christie’s London social circle in the 1930s. She was the dedicatee of Christie’s 1940 novel One Two, Buckle My Shoe. North’s daughter, Susan, and Christie’s daughter, Rosalind, were also close friends and the joint dedicatees of Christie’s 1939 novel Murder is Easy. Very good in a near fine dust jacket.

Dead Man's Folly commences with Poirot being summoned to Nasse House in Devon by Ariadne Oliver, who is staging a Murder Hunt as part of a summer fête the next day. When Oliver and Poiroit discover a local girl's body in the estate's boathouse, Poroit begins to assemble several stray clues to apprehend the murderer. The novel was adapted into the 1986 film of the same name starring Peter Ustinov as Poroit and Jean Stapleton as Oliver.