Partners in Crime; At Bertram’s Hotel; The Hound of Death (Agatha Christie Crime Collection series)

1st thus.  510pp.  Black cloth-covered boards, gilt and red lettering and decoration gilt titles on spine on red relief.  Top edge sprayed red.  Orange endpapers.  8vo.  Cloth gently rounded at corners and spine ends, hint of toning on text block edges else neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original dust wrapper, rubbed and bumped on extreme edges, slightly shelf worn and sunned on spine.

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 by monthly subscription only and 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, featuring an 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 can offer generous discounts to those purchasing more than one volume at a time – please inquire.