First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Edition, December 1996
Copyright © 1971 by Ross Macdonald
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1971.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf
edition as follows:
Library of Congress catalog card number: 76–136337
eISBN: 978-0-307-77314-2
Random House Web address: http://www.randomhouse.com/
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