Death of a Ghost

UK precedes US and the census claim is confirmed. Heinemann, London, February 1934 is the true first — the month is double-sourced, given by both the Margery Allingham Society and Wikipedia's article on the novel, and the Library of Congress's UK record is consistent with it. Doubleday, Doran for The Crime Club, Garden City, N.Y., 1934 is the first American edition and is collected in its own right — name both. The title was not changed for the US market, so unlike Sweet Danger there is no retitle trap here; the trap is instead that the US Crime Club issue is far commoner than the London issue and is often described simply as "the 1934 first". Later Heinemann, Penguin, Bantam, Carroll & Graf and Felony & Mayhem issues are reprints.