The "Canary" Murder Case

US Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1927 is the first edition (Wikipedia's infobox gives Scribner's / 1927 / United States; an ABAA dealer catalogues the Scribner first printing). A UK edition was published by Ernest Benn Ltd., London, 1927 — confirmed by a dealer listing, and Benn is corroborated as Van Dine's early UK publisher by a Benn first edition of The Benson Murder Case, 1926. British Van Dine editions are scarce. The census's claim that Scribner's precedes Benn is the expected sequence for a US author but was not documented in any source consulted; treat the direction as probable rather than established. Second Philo Vance novel.