The Crooked Hinge

Both the Harper (New York) and Hamish Hamilton (London) editions appeared in 1938 and both are collected. The census claims US precedence; the Harper code I-N fixes the American printing to September 1938, but no source consulted gives a month for the Hamish Hamilton issue, so month-level precedence is NOT established — treat 'US first' as conventional rather than proven, particularly given that a Carr-scholarship source dates the companion title The Burning Court's UK issue ahead of its US issue. Wider Carr trap to keep in view: his US and UK editions frequently carry different titles (The Hollow Man / The Three Coffins; The Black Spectacles / The Problem of the Green Capsule), though The Crooked Hinge is titled identically in both markets.