Serenade

The census claim is correct: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1937 is the true first of Cain's second novel, and it completes the core Cain Knopf run. The first English edition is Jonathan Cape, London, 1938 — copyright page reading "First Published 1938," 286 pp., red cloth — a later, separate setting that does not compete for precedence but is collected in its own right as the first UK edition and is decidedly scarce in its dust jacket. No prior foreign-language edition exists; the book was written and first published in English.