CHRISTIE, Agatha The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. London: Collins Crime Club.1962.
8vo. Original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine and 'Crime Club' emblem; green, white and red titled dust jacket; pp. [vi], 255, [1]; light bumping to top and bottom of spine, offsetting from pastedowns with some minimal foxing to textblock and upperedge; fading to spine of dustjacket and slight marking to rear panel; otherwise very good.
First edition
Out flew the web and floated wide-
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.
As the shrewd Miss Marple, Agatha Christie's universally adored, yet unassuming, detective takes a tumble in her village of St. Mary Mead, she is helped by another villager who informs her of the arrival of a new resident, the famous film actress Marina Gregg. Shortly after, a murder occurs in the Gregg household and Marina's look of terror before witnessing the death is described using the Alfred Tennyson poem from which the title takes inspiration. What was it that Marina saw that caused her to give away such a violent, dark and poetic expression and what did she know?
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is dedicated to Margaret Rutherford 'with admiration'; the actress who played the famous Miss Marple in a series of four films in the 1960's.
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