Description

• First Australian Edition [The Crime Club, Melbourne, 1946]; 160 pages; red cloth, black titling to spine, spine a little faded, a few marks, pages age-toned, some light foxing, a very good copy; in the good only, unclipped [4s 6d net] dustjacket, chipped along edges, missing significant fragments from spine, rear fold split along 2/3 of edge
• There’s a poison pen rampant in the village of Lymstock, writing all sorts of nasty things about the villagers and sending everyone into a tizzy of suspicion. When one of the recipients of the poison pen letters ends up dead, the situation calls for Scotland Yard. But the police are baffled until quiet Miss Marple points them in the right direction