Fontana, 1978-04-01. 1st Edn. 10th. Imp.. Mass Market Paperback. VG+/VG/ND. Box X39 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 10th.* Date of Publication: 1978 (1961) * Publisher: Fontana Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing an antelope's head, an RAF roundel and several characters. Black titles to spine and face. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners, none to head & tail of spine. Light marks and creases to covers. VG.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions. Some minor age darkening and marks to page margins & edges especially to top. VG+ * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 191 pp. text. i pp ads at rear.* Product Description:- Description: Mrs Willett and her daughter Violet, the new tenants of Sittaford House, invite four people to tea on Friday afternoon. Major Burnaby is a friend of Captain Trevelyan, who owns Sittaford House; the other three guests are Mr Rycroft, Mr Ronnie Garfield, and Mr Duke. Foolishly, they decide hold a séance and at 5.25 pm, they are told (apparently by a spirit) that Captain Trevelyan has just been murdered. Major Burnaby decides to walk six miles through heavy snow on the ground to find Trevelyan and check on his welfare, since there is no telephone and the conditions are impossible for a car. Just before 8 pm, he arrives at Hazelmoor, Trevelyan's home in Exhampton. No-one answers his knock and the police and a doctor enter the house and find Captain Trevelyan's corpse. He died between 5 and 6 pm..* This is a NEAR VG+ copy of the 1st/10th. with some minor age & wear reducing it to VG.*

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"You cannot fail to be reminded of Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles," comments Christie biographer Charles Osborne of The Sittaford Mystery -- in which remote, snowbound Dartmoor is the setting for some strange goings-on, and of a grisly murder.The novel opens at Sittaford House, the grand manor owned by Captain Joseph Trevelyan of the Royal Navy, though he does not live there -- preferring the income from renting it out. In the midst of a blinding snowstorm, the occupants of Sittaford House have chosen for their evening's diversion ... a seance. They receive a chilling message: ‘Captain Trevelyan… dead… murder.’Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? Unfortunately, it is the truth -- and it is up to our plucky young heroine, Emily Trefusis, to prove that her fiance, Captain Trevelyan's nephew, is not, as he has been accused, the murderer. But who is the murderer? And what will he or she do in the wilds of Dartmoor to end Emily's investigation?

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9956
Title: THE SITTAFORD MYSTERY.
Author: Christie., Agatha
Format/Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition: Used - VG+/VG/ND
Edition: 1st Edn. 10th. Imp.
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0006139310
ISBN 13: 9780006139317
Publisher: Fontana
Place of Publication: Great Britain
Date Published: 1978-04-01
Pages: 192
X weight: g

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