It haunted for several years in the eigthies of last century in a house built only 20 years before in a fashionable quarter of Cheltenham
Colomba by Prosper Mérimée
and a couple of shallow spine breaks throughout
translated by Robert Eglesfield
The book was inspired by Christie's own trips to Baghdad with her second husband
The Railway Children Agatha Christie It haunted for several yearsE. Nesbit, The Railway Children. London: The Folio Society, 1999. Second printing thus, 2000. Introduced by Helen Cresswell, illustrated by Inga Moore. 228 160 25 mm. Pp. [iviii] ixxv [xvixviii], 1188 [189192]: [7] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. 18, 41, 66, 80, 101, 117 and 175). Type: Fournier with Richmond for display. Printed and bound by the Bath Press. Full white cloth with a design in green, black, orange and pale grey brown by Moore; pale