Publication History
- 1933, The McCall Company (abridged version as part of Six Redbook Novels), 1933
- 1934, Collins Crime Club (London), September 1934, Hardcover, 256 pp (priced at 7/6 - seven shillings and sixpence)
- 1935, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1935, Hardcover, 290 pp as The Boomerang Clue (priced at $2.00).
- 1944, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 46 ), 224 pp
- 1956, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 192 pp
- 1968, Greenway edition of collected works (William Collins), Hardcover, 288 pp
- 1968, Greenway edition of collected works (Dodd Mead and Company), Hardcover, 288 pp
- 1974, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 394 pp ISBN 0-85456-270-2
- 1978, Pan Books, Paperback, ISBN 0-330-10736-4
The novel was first published in the US in the Redbook magazine in a condensed version in the issue for November 1933 (Volume 62, Number 1) under the title The Boomerang Clue with illustrations by Joseph Franké. This version was then published in Six Redbook Novels by The McCall Company in 1933, prior to the publication of the full text by Dodd Mead in 1935. The other five condensed novels in this volume were The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, The Figure in the Fog by Mignon G. Eberhart, The Cross of Peace by Philip Gibbs, White Piracy by James Warner Bellah and Parade Ground by Charles L. Clifford.
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