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By The Pricking of My Thumbs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1968Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon. Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Read More..

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Description	By The Pricking of My Thumbs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1968Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon. Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions. Dragonby Press (Second Edition) March 1999 (Page 15) and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.John Cooper and B.A. Pyke. Detective Fiction – the collector's guide: Second Edition (pp. 82, 87) Scholar Press. 1994. ISBN 0-85967-991-8 American Tribute to Agatha Christie The UK edition retailed at twenty-one shillings (21/-) and the US edition at $4.95. It features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.Youthful in two Christie books written in the 1920s, middle-aged in a World-War II spy novel, and here elderly, Tommy and Tuppence were unusual in that they aged according to real time, unlike Miss Marple, whose age remained more or less the same from the first novels in the 1920s to the last in the 1970s.The title of the book comes from Act 4, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, when the second witch says:By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes.
Description	By The Pricking of My Thumbs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1968Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon. Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions. Dragonby Press (Second Edition) March 1999 (Page 15) and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.John Cooper and B.A. Pyke. Detective Fiction – the collector's guide: Second Edition (pp. 82, 87) Scholar Press. 1994. ISBN 0-85967-991-8 American Tribute to Agatha Christie The UK edition retailed at twenty-one shillings (21/-) and the US edition at $4.95. It features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.Youthful in two Christie books written in the 1920s, middle-aged in a World-War II spy novel, and here elderly, Tommy and Tuppence were unusual in that they aged according to real time, unlike Miss Marple, whose age remained more or less the same from the first novels in the 1920s to the last in the 1970s.The title of the book comes from Act 4, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, when the second witch says:By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes.

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Name	By the Pricking of My Thumbs
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Authors	Agatha Christie
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Genre	Crime novel
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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Pages	256 pp (first edition, hardcover)
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Media_type	Print (hardback & paperback)
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Publisher	Collins Crime Club
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Pub_date	November 1968
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