Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
First published in the U.S.A. 1931 Published in Great Britain by Cassell 1931 Published in Penguin Books 1966 Copyright © Dashiell Hammett, 1959
Made and printed in Great Britain by Hunt, Barnard & Co. Ltd, at the Sign of the Dolphin, Aylesbury, Bucks. Set in Monotype Times
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