FIVE LITTLE PIGS

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth fresh and bright. The contents, with a paper bookseller's label to the front pastedown, mild spotting and finger marks to the endpapers and margins, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps.

A Hercule Poirot novel, published later the same year in America under the title Murder In Retrospect. On first publication the novel was very well reviewed and went quickly into reprint. It was the first of Christie's novels to achieve sales of 20,000 copies at the original published price. (Hubin; Wagstaff & Poole; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).