The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
by Agatha Christie
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Avon Books, UK, 1946. Reprint. Paperback. Fair. Paperback. 232 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Avon Books, UK, 1946. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in fair condition. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. Edges of covers have moderate wear. Spine has moderate lean and moderate reading creases. . Pages are considerably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Diamond merchant Isaac Pointz and his guests come ashore at Dartmouth to enjoy the fair after the yacht races. Over dinner, young Eve Leathern bets she can make Pointz's famous diamond, the Morning Star, disappear right at the table. When the girl does exactly that, she discovers she has made the priceless gem disappear more completely than she had intended. Fortunately, Parker Pyne is able to get to the bottom of what really happened to the Morning Star. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; Inventory No: 24010171..
Synopsis
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1939. The first edition retailed at $2.00. The stories feature, with one exception (In a Glass Darkly), Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple or Parker Pyne, Christie's famed detectives.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24010171
- Title
- The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Manyhills Books
Biblio member since 2009
Traralgon, Victoria
About Manyhills Books
Manyhills Book Store stocks New, Unread, Collectible and Used books.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....