FIRST VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD EDITION, JUNE 2013
Translation copyright © 1965 by Michael Joseph Ltd.
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Sweden as Uppdraget by P. A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm, in 1963. Copyright © 1963 by Per Wahlöö. This translation originally published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph Ltd., London, in 1965, and subsequently published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1966.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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eISBN: 978-0-307-74477-7
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