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Hardcover in fine condition. The boards are red faux leather, clean and unmarked, stamped in gilt with a signature and a stepped border to the front, gilt lettering and frames to the spine. Patterned endpapers in rose and brown, with a yellow ribbon marker. Pages are clean and free of marks throughout. A tidy copy. Endless Night and They Came to Baghdad. Two novels in one illustrated volume, with illustrations by Pierre Monnerat and Gilbert Koull. Heron Books edition, from the Agatha Christie Collected Works series, circa late 1970s. Endless Night (1967) follows Mike Rogers, a drifter who dreams of building a house at Gipsy’s Acre, a property with a reputed curse, and the heiress he falls in love with. They Came to Baghdad (1951) sends young Victoria Jones into a spy plot when a dying agent is found in her hotel room before a secret summit. Two standalone novels, with no Poirot or Marple.