According to one foreign-language edition, they think a “vegetable marrow” is a kind of pumpkin (it’s actually what Americans call a zucchini). Possibly the second-most common is an ornate dagger, followed by an antique telephone. (There’s also two greenback versions, both shown here the one with the text that almost overruns the words “Mystery and Crime” is the earlier and more valuable.) The most common image that cover artists seem to select as a placeholder for the actions of the book is a wing chair I’m not sure why.
I prefer the one with the knife through the tweedy lapel and just a hint of blood.
It’s not uncommon for me to like the Tom Adams covers of Christie paperbacks the best here there are two versions. Christie was also part of the first ten books published in UK Penguin greenbacks. My own first experience with this novel came with an undistinguished American paperback edition, but I remember finding a later printing of Pocket #5 and realizing that a first printing would have been one of the first ten paperbacks published in North America in September, 1939. As you can imagine, there have been an unbelievable number of editions of this famous novel … including an “edited” version for Canadian schoolchildren to use as a text (why edited, I have no idea nor do I have any idea why schoolchildren would be expected to study this book).
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