Parker Pyne Investigates

Parker Pyne Investigates was first published by Wm. Collins in 1934. Fontana first issued it in 1962, published a second impression in May 1965, and this is the third impression dated June 1973. The cover painting was done by Tom Adams, an illustrator of many of Christie's paperbacks. This impression is priced 30p.

Dead Man's Folly

Dead Man's Folly was first published by Collins for the Crime Club in 1956. It was first issued in Fontana Books in 1960, and this edition was the second impression published in June 1970. It was published just after decimilisation, and so the price on the cover is gicen as 5/- (25p).
A Garden Fete is in progress. In place of a Treasure Hunt, Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, the well-known novelist, has organised a Murder Hunt. But when the final clue leads to the victim, the 'body' is a real corpse!

Death on the Nile

First published in 1937 (although this copy states 1966...) and first issued by Fontana in 1960. This copy is the ninth impression, printed December 1972.

The cover painting was by Tom Adams.

She was lying on her side, her attitude natural and peaceful. But above the ear was a tiny hole with an incrustation of dried blood round it. Then Poirot's gaze fell on the white painted wall behind her and he drew in his breath sharply.
Its white neatness was marred by a big wavering letter J scrawled in some brownish-red medium. He leaned over the dead girl and very gently picked up her right hand. One finger of it was stained a brownish-red...

Destination Unknown

First published in 1954 and by Fontana Books in 1958. This copy is the fourteenth impression, published in December 1973.

Cover Painting by Tom Adams

Hilary Craven had finished with life...
So when she was invited to go to Morocco to impersonate the dead wife of a vanished nnuclear scientist, she decided it might make a more interesting form of suicide than sleeping pills.
She found herself caught up in a unique organisation which arranged the escape of scientific genuises to a Destination Unknown...

A Pocket Full of Rye

First published in 1953 and first issued by Fontana Books in 1958. This copy is the fourteenth impression, printed March 1973.

Cover painting by Tom Adams

Sergeant Hay looked up at Inspector Neele from the bottom of the stairs. He was panting.

"Sir," he said urgently. "We've founf her!"

"Found who?"

"Gladys, sir, the maid. Strangles she was, with a stocking around her throat - been dead for hours, I'd say. And, sir, it's a wicked kind of joke - there was a clothes peg clipped on her nose..."