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The Witness for the Prosecution (1948) – Agatha Christie | First Edition Identification Guide

Agatha Christie - Witness For The Prosecution 1948 US

The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1948. The first edition retailed at $2.50. The story “The Second Gong” features Hercule Poirot, the only character in the stories who appears in any other

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The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948) – Mary Westmacott | First Edition Identification Guide

Mary Westmacott - Rose and the Yew Tree UK

The Rose and the Yew Tree is a tragedy novel written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by William Heinemann Ltd in November 1948 and in the US by Farrar & Rinehart later in the same year. It is the fourth of six novels Christie published under the pen name Mary Westmacott.

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Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950) – Agatha Christie | First Edition Identification Guide

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Three Blind Mice and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950. The first edition retailed at $2.50. Stories from the collection later appeared in the British collections The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960), Poirot’s Early Cases (1974),

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They Came to Baghdad (1951) – Agatha Christie | First Edition Identification Guide

Agatha Christie - They Came to Baghdad 1951 UK

They Came to Baghdad is an adventure novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 5 March 1951 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6) and the US edition

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The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951) – Agatha Christie | First Edition Identification Guide

Agatha Christie - Under Dog 1951 US

The Under Dog and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the United States in 1951, Dodd Mead and Company. The title story was published in booklet form along with Blackman’s Wood (by E. Phillips Oppenheim) in the United Kingdom in 1929 by The Reader’s Library. The

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Mrs McGinty’s Dead (1952) – Agatha Christie | First Edition Identification Guide

Agatha Christie - Mrs. McGinty’s Dead 1952 US

Mrs McGinty’s Dead is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 March the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition nine shillings and

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Murder with Mirrors (1952) – Agatha Christie | First Edition Identification Guide

Agatha Christie - Murder with Mirrors 1952 US

They Do It with Mirrors is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1952 under the title of Murder with Mirrors and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 17 November that year under Christie’s original title. The US edition retailed

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