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 2021 by Penzler Publishers

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Distributed by W. W. Norton

Copyright © 1940, 1941 by Baynard Kendrick, renewed.

Introduction copyright © 2021 by Otto Penzler.

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Cover image: Andy Ross

Cover design: Mauricio Diaz

Paperback ISBN 978-1-61316-204-0

Hardcover ISBN 978-1-61316-203-3

eBook ISBN 978-1-61316-205-7

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021901082