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A tight and unmarked copy-Three Complete Mystery Novels 1) The Mystery of the Blue Train 2) Death in the Air 3) What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! " This book club edition combines three Agatha Christie mysteries united on the setting of events in transit by train and plane. The anonymity of a solo passenger--isolated by their very immersion in a crowd of fellow anonymous solo passengers--is an enabling theme in these stories. Two of the three are Hercule Poirot, all bluster and ego and indirection and mustaches so ably played by Kenneth Branagh, and the third is Miss Marple, with her quiet direct logic. What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw was a murder glance through the window of her train and the window of a train running in the same direction on a parallel track. When the two windows were in sync for a few brief seconds stunned the elderly Mrs., who promptly reported it to the steward in her car, a policeman at the station where both cars were slowing to arrive, and to her friend Miss Marple, who then took the witness to retell the story to yet another policeman familiar with Miss Marple's calm detecting skills. But when there was no news about the apparent murder in the press and no dead body reported found on a train, the two ladies hatched a plan to investigate the case on their own to help convince the police that the event had actually happened."- Todd -6254 number on jacket with some edge wear.

London, United Kingdom: The Crime Club, 1951. Jacket has general wear, small chips and 1cm missing at top of spine and 6cm missing at bottom of spine. Fading to spine where jacket has been missing. Inscription to front free endpaper. Brown discolouration to pages. 248 pages plus ads. . Eighteenth Impression. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Paul Hamlyn. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1970. Collected omnibus. Hardcover. 060076611X . Hardback in dustwrapper; nice copy of book; black cloth cover with red / gold decoration/lettering; no handwriting inside such as names; nice clean copy; d/w not clipped; lettering on spine very faded; faded light brown staining to spine - possibly from damp; a couple of small nicks to d/w at top of spine; vg+/vg-; ; Agatha Christie Crime Collection; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London, UK: Hamlyn, 1970. 1st Thus 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st thus. 544p. In black cloth boards with gilt and red decorations and lettering, red blocked spine labels, top edge sprayed red, decorative headband, orange endpapers (boards are strong, bright and clean, with smooth edges and sharp corners). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (very gently bumped on corners and spine ends, faded titles on a sunned spine as typical for this edition, perhaps a tad discoloured). Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A pleasing volume from the Agatha Christie Crime Collection. 8vo. The Agatha Christie Crime Collection, issued by Hamlyn Publishing Group in the late 1960s and early 1970s, is a definitive collected edition of Christie's crime fiction, including her short stories, up to the publication of Nemesis in 1972. Each volume contains three of her detective fiction novels. Issued by Hamlyn on by monthly subscription only and was not sold through bookshops. The set was nicely produced, with each volume featuring golden dagger over Christie's initials on the front panel, coloured endpapers, sprayed edges and encased in period dust jackets, each one featuring a element of one of the three mysteries. Some of those in the series are now hard to find especially, it is said, some of the later issues, as subscriptions to the series fell off towards the end. We have several volumes from this series in stock and offer generous discounts to those purchasing more than one volume at a time - please inquire.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1955. [Crime Fiction] VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; 248; [4], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, printed price of 6s. to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, toning to endpapers, slight toning to bottom half of spine, amateur repair to jacket (previous owner has reinforced jacket reverse with paper and poorly colour matched the spine), archival tape to jacket. General edgewear. Good. A Hercule Poirot mystery; when the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again, for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her priceless rubies are missing.

Paul Hamlyn. Book Club. Hardcover. Used - Good/Good. Minor shelf wear on edges of dust jacket. Pictures available upon request. Minor shelf wear on edges of boards but spine, boards, and pages are in good condition.

HarperCollins, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second Ed Thus. Second ed. thus. Facsimile first ed. Fine/Fine condition. Includes "belly band" around dustjacket..

The Crime Club, by Collins, London, 1951. [Detective Fiction] Vintage hardcover edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248; [4] ads. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in black to the spine, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 5 shillings. Contents clean, some spotting to top edge, jacket bright and fresh with gentle wear to crown. Near fine. An attractive hardback reprint of this famous murder case involving the theft of the famous 'Heart of Fire' ruby. A Hercule Poirot mystery; when the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again, for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her priceless jewels are missing. Cooper & Pike; Detective Fiction p82-88 [Colour Section], Eric Quayle; Detective Fiction.

The COMPLETE SET of 24 VOLUMES are in good condition, normal wear, small marks consistent with use and age, some fading to the spine of the dust jackets. Each volume contains three stories: 1. THE MURDER ON THE LINKS - A POCKET FULL OF RYE - DESTINATION UNKNOWN. PUBLISHED 1969. 2. THE CLOCKS - THIRD GIRL - MURDER IN THE MEWS, PUBLISHED 1971. 3. SPARKLING CYANIDE - THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS - FIVE LITTLE PIGS, PUBLISHED 1970. 4. MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN - THE LISTERDALE MYSTERY - MURDER AT THE VICARAGE, PUBLISHED 1970. 5. ORDEAL MY INNOCENCE - ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE - ADVENTURE OF THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING. PUBLISHED 1970. 6. EVIL UNDER THE SUN - DEATH COMES AS THE END - THE SITTAFORD MYSTERY, PUBLISHED 1970. 7. PARTNERS IN CRIME - AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL - THE HOUND OF DEATH, PUBLISHED 1972. 8. BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS - THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUIN - ENDLESS NIGHT, PUBLISHED 1971. 9. DEATH ON THE NILE - TOWARDS ZERO - AFTER THE FUNERAL, PUBLISHED 1970. 10. THE HOLLOW - THE MOVING FINGER - THREE ACT TRADEGY, PUBLISHED 1969. 11. PERIL AT END HOUSE - THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY - HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS, PUBLISHED 1970. 12. THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD - THEY DO IT WITH MIRRORS - MRS McGINTY'S DEAD, PUBLISHED 1969, WITH FOREWARD BY AGATHA CHRISTIE AND COPY OF HER SIGNATURE. 13. NEMESIS - PARKER PYNE INVESTIGATES - POIROT INVESTIGATES, PUBLISHED 1972. 14. HALLOWE'EN PARTY - PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT - THE THIRTEEN PROBLEMS, PUBLISHED 1971. 15. THE PALE HORSE - THE BIG FOUR - THE SECRET ADVERSARY, PUBLISHED 1970. 16. THE MIRROR CRAC'D FROM SIDE TO SIDE - THEY CAME TO BAGHDAD - THE ABC MURDERS, PUBLISHED 1970. 17. CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS - THE LABOURS OF HECULES - HICKORY DICKORY DOCK, PUBLISHED 1970. 18. MURDER IS EASY - DEAD MAN'S FOLLY - THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT, PUBLISHED 1970. 19. MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS - DEATH IN THE CLOUDS - WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS, PUBLISHED 1969. 20. 4.50 FROM PADDINGTON - LORD EDGWARE DIES - MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA, PUBLISHED 1969. 21. A CARIBBEAN MYSTERY - TAKEN AT THE FLOOD - THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY, PUBLISHED 1971. 22. THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES - TEN LITTLE NIGGERS - DUMB WITNESS, PUBLISHED 1970. 23. CARDS ON THE TABLE - N OR M - A MURDER IS ANNOUCED, PUBLISHED 1969. 24. APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH - CROOKED HOUSE - SAD CYPRESS, PUBLISHED 1969.Please note postage/shipping abroad will increase from listed postage price due to size and weight, which will also depend on the final destination. The postage cost will be sent to you by Biblio to either accept or decline.