Publication History
- 1945, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), February 1945, Hardback, 209 pp
- 1945, Collins Crime Club (London), December 1945, Hardback, 160 pp
- 1947, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback (Pocket number 451)
- 1955, Pan Books, Paperback, 159 pp (Pan number 345)
- 1955, Pan Books, Paperback, (Great Pan 156)
- 1960, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 160 pp
- 1978, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 358 pp ISBN 0-7089-0223-5
- 2010, HarperCollins; Facsimile edition, Hardcover: 160 pages, ISBN 978-0-00-735470-2
The novel's first true publication was the serialisation in The Saturday Evening Post in eight instalments from 15 July (Volume 216, Number 3) to 2 September 1944 (Volume 217, Number 10) under the title Remembered Death with illustrations by Hy Rubin.
The novel was first serialised, heavily abridged, in the UK in the Daily Express starting on Monday, 9 July 1945 and running for eighteen instalments until Saturday, 28 July. The first instalment carried an uncredited illustration.
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