CHRISTIE, Agatha Hickory Dickory Dock. London: Collins Crime Club.1955.
8vo. Original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine, "The Holliday Bookshop" label stamped to rear pastedown with an excerpt of a review of the book pasted to rear pastedown with stained cellotape; red, black and white titled dust jacket with black lettering to spine; pp. [iv], 191 [1]; foxing to front pastedown and offsetting to both; fading to dust jacket spine with minor closed tear to upper edge of front panel; otherwise near fine.
First UK edition
One of the formidable Agatha Christie's much loved Hercule Poirot novels, (her most well known and longest-running inventions) Hickory Dickory Dock is based in a student hostel, in which the famous detective discovers numerous acts of vandalism all originating from the same suspect who is then conveniently murdered…
Like other Christie novels such as One, Two, Buckle My Shoe and Five Little Pigs, the title is taken from the well known children's nursery rhyme.
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