Description

First Australian Edition [The Crime Club, Sydney, 1952]; 188 pages + 4 pages publisher ads; taupe cloth, black titling to spine, spine a little cocked, pages age-toned, light foxing on block, bookseller’s sticker inside front board, an excellent copy; in goo+ dustjacket, rubbed & chipped along edges, front fold torn for half the length, tape repairs [verso] to spine ends & bottom edge of front

Mrs. McGinty’s death appears to be the result of senseless brutality. The verdict is that she was bludgeoned by her lodger, a young man who was down on his luck, for the sake of a mere £30. But Poirot’s friend Superintendent Spence doesn’t believe the man is guilty, and asks Poirot to help. Poirot is joined in his investigations by Ariadne Oliver, his mystery novelist friend whom he met in Cards on the Table.