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Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in the U.S.A. 1964 Published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton 1964 Published in Penguin Books 1968 Copyright © Ed McBain, 1964

Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Set in Linotype Pilgrim

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