AFTER THE FUNERAL

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to spine, in the Dennis Beytagh illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The top edge of the closed text block is a little spotted and dusty. Complete with very lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a couple of tiny nicks at the fold corners and a touch of darkening to the spine. Not price-clipped (10s 6d net to the lower front flap). An excellent example of this Hercule Poirot novel.

Uniquely for this publisher, the first edition is dated to the rear of the book as opposed to the reverse of the title page as in every other Crime Club publication. First published in America a couple of months earlier under the title "Funerals are Fatal". (Hubin; Wagstaff & Poole; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).