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First Hard Case Crime edition: June 2024
Published by
Titan Books
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London SE1 OUP
in collaboration with Winterfall LLC
Copyright ©1929 by Rebecca Bradbury, Chris Maroc, and Liz Maroc, renewed 1957
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Print edition ISBN 978-1-80336-486-5
E-book ISBN 978-1-80336-487-2
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