Description

• First Australian Edition [The Crime Club, Sydney, 1958]; 256 pages; red cloth, spine slightly canted, ends a little bumped, penned name & address inside front board, tape removed from inner boards leaving abrasions to endpapers, a very good copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, a little bumped & rubbed along edges with small chips at corners
• Crime Club Choice for Collins publishers

Despite his insistence on innocence, Jacko Argyle was convicted of bludgeoning his mother to death, and he dies while in prison. Now two years later, someone comes along who can back up Jacko’s story with an alibi. But the Argyle family isn’t pleased with the exoneration, for it means that a murderer is still among them. Ordeal by Innocence was one of Christie’s favourite of her novels, and exemplifies her shift towards more psychological thrillers in her late career.