Mystery Mile

UK precedes US and the census claim is confirmed. Jarrolds, London, January 1930 (month per the Margery Allingham Society) is the accepted true first; Doubleday, Doran for The Crime Club, Garden City, N.Y., 1930 is the first American edition and is collected in its own right — name both. One residual: no source consulted gives a month for the US Crime Club issue, so UK precedence rests on the January 1930 UK date against an undated-within-year US issue rather than on two compared months. This is the second Albert Campion book (after The Crime at Black Dudley) and the first in which Campion leads; the title was not changed for the US market.