Death on the Nile — Christie Greenway Edition Dodd Mead 1970

📖 Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (1970, Dodd Mead) — Hercule Poirot investigates a murder aboard a Nile steamer in one of Christie’s most celebrated mystery novels. This copy is the Greenway Edition #11, with its distinctive blue dust jacket featuring abstract fish-motif cover art, in VG/G+ condition with an unclipped $3.95 original price.

QUICK FACTS

• Author: Agatha Christie (1890–1976)
• Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
• Year: 1970 (first published in The Greenway Edition)
• Format: Hardcover in dust jacket
• Pages: 288 | ISBN: None (pre-ISBN era for US edition)
• Condition: Book: Very Good / Jacket: Good+ — full report below

THE STORY

First published in 1937, Death on the Nile follows Hercule Poirot as he boards the steamer Karnak for a voyage along the Nile River. Wealthy heiress Linnet Doyle is being stalked by her husband’s ex-fiancée, Jacqueline de Bellefort. When Linnet is found murdered aboard the ship, Poirot must untangle a web of jealousy, greed, and deception among the passengers. The novel is widely considered one of Christie’s finest works — a masterclass in misdirection with an elaborate, satisfying solution.

THIS EDITION

The Greenway Edition was a uniform series of Agatha Christie novels issued by Dodd, Mead & Company in the late 1960s and 1970s. Named after Greenway, Christie’s beloved Devon estate (now a National Trust property), the series gave her American publisher’s catalogue a distinctive, collectible format. Each volume was numbered — this is #11 in the series. The copyright page reads “First published in The Greenway Edition 1970,” with original copyright dates of 1937 and 1965 (renewed under Agatha Christie Mallowan).

COVER ART & DESIGN

The dust jacket features a bold, modernist design: a deep blue background with two stylized abstract fish composed of geometric shapes in green, red, purple, and black. The typography is clean and mid-century — “Agatha Christie” in large white sans-serif, “DEATH ON THE NILE” in black below, and “The Greenway Edition” in small white text at the top. The spine repeats the fish motif alongside the series number 11 and “DODD MEAD” at the foot. The back flap lists other titles in the Greenway Edition series, including Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and Crooked House.

WHY IT MATTERS

• Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, with over two billion copies sold worldwide
• Death on the Nile has been adapted multiple times: the 1978 film starring Peter Ustinov, a 2004 TV adaptation, and Kenneth Branagh’s 2022 film
• The Greenway Edition is a recognized collectible series among Christie bibliophiles — complete sets command premium prices
• Original $3.95 price is unclipped on the front dust jacket flap, confirming this is a first Greenway printing

FREQUENTLY ASKED

What edition is this? This is the Greenway Edition, published by Dodd, Mead & Company in 1970. It is volume #11 in the numbered series. The copyright page states “First published in The Greenway Edition 1970.”

What condition is it in? Book: Very Good (VG). Jacket: Good+ (G+) — full condition report below.

Is the dust jacket included? Yes. The jacket shows surface rubbing, chipped flap fold corners with small losses, and creasing at the spine head and tail with numerous small losses. It is not price-clipped.

FOR COLLECTORS

The Greenway Edition fish-motif jackets are among the most recognizable Christie designs from the period. This copy’s unclipped price and complete jacket make it a solid representative of the series. For Christie collectors building a Greenway set, volumes are numbered 1 through at least 12 — this is #11.

Book Details

Author: Agatha Christie
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
Binding: Hardcover (with Dust Jacket)
Edition Points: 1970 Greenway Edition.

Condition Report

Overall Grade: Book: Very Good (VG) / Jacket: Good+ (G+)
Cover & Spine: Blue cloth wrapper boards are uniform, spine shows a hint of tanning. Board corners unbumped with wear at the tips. Spine head and tail bumped with some edge wear.
Dust Jacket: Surface rubbing all around, flap fold corners are chipped with some small losses on a couple. Spine head and tail are fairly well creased with numerous small losses. Not price clipped, with publisher’s price $3.95 inside front flap. No writing or tags. Flaps are folded somewhat out of place such that the spine design is peaking across the edge of the front cover spine edge.
Text Block & Pages: Block upper sprayed edge fairly uniform, with a hint of dusting and foxing. The outer and lower edges are bright, pretty much without marks or smudging. Internally the pages are bright, free from marks or blemishes.
Binding: Solid, fairly square, with solid, intact hinges.

See accompanying images for full condition details. Will ship promptly, carefully packaged.

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