Agatha Christie — Evil Under the Sun

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. Cloth. A bright copy of the first Grosset & Dunlap printing of Agatha Christie"s ingenious island mystery, complete with the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Complete with the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.  The first printing of the Grosset & Dunlap edition, produced using the plates of the 1941 Dodd, Mead and Company first American edition. The novel was first published by the Collins Crime Club in June 1941, followed by the American edition later that year.  A Hercule Poirot detective novel set at an exclusive island hotel off the Devon coast. While holidaying at the Jolly Roger Hotel, Poirot encounters the glamorous and widely disliked actress Arlena Marshall. When she is found strangled in a secluded cove, Poirot find himself investigating the murder. Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was the most successful detective novelist of the twentieth century and the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Evil Under the Sun develops the romantic intrigue and calculated misdirection Christie had earlier explored in her 1936 Poirot story, "Triangle at Rhodes". An attractive early American issue of one of Christie"s classic seaside mysteries In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Previous bookseller's discreet pricing ticket to the lower margin of the second rear blank. Dust wrapper, smart. Light edge wear with one or two small closed tears and chips to spine ends and to the upper edge of the rear panel. Light soiling apparent to rear wrap with one or two marks and spots to lower panel. Slight sunning and rubbing to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two light spots to fore edge. Light vertical crease to rear blank. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.