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, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Published in 2022 by Penzler Publishers
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Distributed by W. W. Norton
Copyright © 1939 by Erle Stanley Gardner, renewed.
Introduction copyright © 2022 by Otto Penzler.
All rights reserved.
Cover image: Andy Ross
Cover design: Mauricio Diaz
Paperback ISBN 978-1-61316-356-6
Hardcover ISBN 978-1-61316-357-3
ISBN 978-1-61316-358-0 (e-book)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022906674