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NY: Dodd, Mead, 1972. Hardcover_boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5"x1.25"; 243 pages; Soft vanilla boards w/ black ink on spine; Jacket design by J. Caroff w/three colors. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Faint foxing to bottom edge. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident - the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies - a husband and wife - shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed 15 years earlier and discovers that, when there is a distinct lack of physical evidence, it's just as well that 'old sins leave long shadows.' This story is part of Agatha Christie's murder in retrospect series, a collection of stories which look at a crime several…
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