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Christie, Agatha.
Taken at the Flood. - SIGNED
Publisher: The Crime Club by Collins, London;
Date of Publication: 1948
Stock Code: 13004
First Edition, octavo, pp., 192. Publisher’s burn orange cloth with titles in black to spine. In a first state supplied dust-jacket with the correct price of 8s. 6.d to front flap. Boldly signed by Agatha Christie in her inimitable hand to the front free endpaper. Orange cloth slightly soiled and spine faded but a solid copy. The unclipped dust-jacket is near fine with just light soling to the white rear panel and one minor 7mm closed tear. A tale of family intrigue set in the immediate post-war years’ as Hercule Poirot is called upon to untangle the mystery of a missing husband, a glamorous widow and the true heir to the Cloade family fortune. The verso of the front free endpaper has the small and neat ownership signature of one ‘L (?) Gordon Clark, who may very well be the noted director, screenwriter and author who directed the short TV film ‘Murder by the Book’ about Agatha Christie attempting to kill off her most famous detective. A superb copy of a rare signed Agatha Christie. £4800.00