First edition, first printing London and Glasgow 1946. 256 pp. Book very good, Dustwrapper very good. The price (8s. 6. net) is intact.
This novel is an example of a 'Country House Mystery'.
"Lady Angkatell, intrigued by the criminal mind, has invited Hercule Poirot to her estate for a weekend house party. The Belgian detective's arrival at the Hollow is met with an elaborate tableau staged for his amusement: a doctor lies in a puddle of red paint, his timid wife stands over his body with a gun while the other guests look suitably shocked. But this is no charade. The paint is blood and the corpse real!" (goodreads)
Book has a light shelf wear and foxing on the text block edges. Ownership Ex libris on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and in excellent condition.
Dustwrapper has a lite wear and creasing along top and bottom edge with small nick losses and few short tears. DW has a bit of loss (chip) at top front corner. No darkning but minimal fading to spine. Some foxing at the back flap edge.
