CHRISTIE Agatha - Broken engagement / FIRST EDITION

Elinor Carlisle - beautiful, young, innocent and weak in appearance. Accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in her efforts to win the favor of her beloved. Resigned and passive, as the evidence against her is also crushing: she was the only one who had the motive for the crime, the opportunity and the means to commit the crime. Concerned and moved by the expression of a pair of eyes staring at her penetratingly. The eyes of Hercule Poirot, who sat in the audience benches....

First edition, in the iconic "With the Dachshund" series.

Czytelnik, Warsaw 1966

Format: 175 x 130 mm, 245s.

Soiling, spine scuffing and cracking, small signature on title page.