Death On The Nile: The Saturday Evening Post And Its First Appearance Anywhere

AGATHA CHRISTIE

Other works by AGATHA CHRISTIE

Publication: Curtis Publishing Company, 1937, Philadelphia

First edition. Folio. Eight 13 1/2" x 10 3/4" volumes. First appearance of Death on the Nile, contained in 8 issues of The Saturday Evening Post running consecutively from May 15 to July 3, 1937. The first book edition was not published until November 1, 1937 by Collins Crime Club (London).

The height of Christie's “closed world" narrative structure; in this instance, a Nile riverboat functioning as a hermetically sealed social microcosm in which every passenger is simultaneously suspect and potential victim. An intricate meditation on desire, jealousy, and the violence concealed within the performance of civilized leisure, while deploying her characteristic technique of using the reader's own assumptions and social prejudices as instruments of misdirection. You should read this book because it is the most cunningly constructed of all Christie's novels, and the one that most rewards a second reading, when every scene reveals itself to have meant something entirely different than it appeared.

Each issue is lightly used with rubbing, short closed tears, old address labels, and a few rusty staples, else complete and attractive in very good condition. Housed in a clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on the spine.

Inventory Number: 54557