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Ordeal By Innocence

Ordeal By Innocence

by Agatha Christie

Publisher Collins

Genre: Crime and Rare & Collectible

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    Very good first edition, slight yellowing to the pages. In a good unclipped dust jacket with minor bruising to spine, and slight turn in at the corners. This book is located in our Brighton shop and may take longer for delivery.

About the book

A first edition of Agatha Christie's crime novel, Ordeal by Innocence, published for The Crime Club in 1958. 

Young Jacko Argyle had died in a prison hospital after serving only six months of a life sentence for the murder of his mother. There had been no room for argument or doubt about his guilt and not even his family could regret his passing. But now, more than two years afterwards, a stranger climbed the hill up from the ferry with news which ripped the peace of the household into shreds. Could Jacko's alibi have been proved after all? If it could, then a terrifying situation existed for the handful of people who fulfilled the classic formula: Motive, Means and Opportunity. Fear and suspicion spread among them like a disease as they were subjected to the agony of doubt and suspense. 

Ordeal by Innocence combines another dazzling demonstration of the Christie guile and skill with a convincing and brilliant study of a family who found that they were living with murder. 

About the Author

Agatha Christie

Born in Torquay in 1890, Agatha Christie began writing during the First World War and wrote over 100 novels, plays and short story collections. She was still writing to great acclaim until her death, and her books have now sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. Yet Agatha Christie was always a very private person, and though Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple became household names, the Queen of Crime was a complete enigma to all but her closest friends.

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