Publication History
- 1949, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), March 1949, Hardback, 211 pp
- 1949, Collins Crime Club (London), 23 May 1949, Hardback, 192 pp
- 1951, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, (Pocket #753), 200 pp
- 1953, Penguin Books, Paperback, (Penguin #925), 191 pp
- 1959, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 191 pp
- 1967, Greenway collected works (William Collins), Hardcover, 223 pp
- 1967, Greenway collected works (Dodd Mead), Hardcover, 223 pp
- 1978 Omniprose collected works with Passenger to Frankfurt, Hardcover, 472 pp, isbn 0921111096
- 1991, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, ISBN 0-7089-2419-0
A condensed version of the novel was first published in the US in Cosmopolitan magazine in the issue for October 1948 (Volume 125, Number 4) with an illustration by Grushkin.
In the UK the novel was first serialised in the weekly magazine John Bull in seven abridged instalments from April 23 (Volume 85, Number 2234) to June 4, 1949 (Volume 85, Number 2240) with illustrations by Alfred Sindall.
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