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First Hard Case Crime edition: November 2018
Published by
Titan Books
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Copyright © 1950 by Oakley Hall
Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Macmillan Company for permission to use the quotation which appears on the following page of this book from The Man Against the Sky, Copyright ©1916, 1944, by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
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Print edition ISBN 978-1-78565-688-0
E-book ISBN 978-1-78565-689-7
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