Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Australia: Penguin Books Pty Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road,
Mitcham, Victoria
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First published by Victor Gollancz 1951
Published in Penguin Books 1961
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Copyright © Helen McCloy, 1949, 1950
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Made and printed in Great Britain
by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd
Aylesbury and Slough
All of the characters and incidents in this book are entirely imaginary
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise disposed of without the publisher’s consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published