Christie (Agatha) Dumb Witness, first edition, 4pp. advertisements, occasional light spotting, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original red cloth lettered in black, slight shelf-lean, sunning to spine ends, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket unpriced, spine ends and corners chipped, affecting first word of title at head of spine and last word of publisher's imprint at foot, a few nicks and short closed tears to head, light creasing to extremities, extremities rubbed, light surface soiling to lower panel, a very good example of a rare jacket, [Cooper & Pike pp.82-9], 8vo, The Crime Club, 1937.

⁂ Rare in the dust-jacket, we can trace only 2 examples at auction. Dumb Witness is the last Poirot novel to feature Hastings until Poirot's Last Case (1975).

"Agatha Christie’s own dog, Peter, to whom this book is dedicated, posed for photograph on the jacket, but disclaims any connection with the events of the tale." - Text on front flap.