[HISTORICAL MYSTERY]. CHRISTIE, Agatha. Death comes as the End. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1944. 8o. Original cloth, pictorial dust jacket (minor chipping to ends of spine panel and edges). FIRST EDITION. "The action of this book takes place on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes in Egypt about 2000 B.C." (Author's note). -- IRWIN, Wallace. The Julius Caesar Murder Case. New York: D. Appleton, 1935. 8o. Original cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light darkening to spine panel). FIRST EDITION of the first hard boiled mystery set in ancient Rome. -- SABATINI, Rafael. Turbulent Tales. London: Hutchinson, n.d. [1946]. Original cloth, pictorial dust jacket (light fading to spine panel). FIRST EDITION. Queen's Quorum 101. (3)