CHRISTIE, Agatha Dead Man's Folly. London: Collins Crime Club.1956.
8vo. Original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine; dark and light green dust jacket with white titles; pp. [vi], 256; offsetting from pastedowns with foxing to both; minimal bumping to top and bottom of spine; otherwise very good.
First UK edition
A murder game in a stately country house evoles into a sinister reality in this Hercule Poirot installment from the reigning 'Queen of Crime'.
In 1954, Agatha Christie supposedly wrote a novella in order to donate towards the local church and therefore incorporated vairous insinuaitons of local places within the text. It was only upon completing it that she decided to use the material towards completing a full-length novel, Dead Man's Folly. The country house in which the novel is based is said to be inspired by Agatha Christie’s own holiday home, Greenway House, in Devon which contains many of the features mentioned in the novel and is now managed by the National Trust.
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