Epitaph for a Spy

Hodder later impressions carry an impression statement on the copyright page. The recurring trap is the Knopf 1952 and the later Penguin and Vintage Crime/Black Lizard reissues being catalogued or offered as first editions of the novel; all are firsts thus at best. Note also that several dealers describe this as Ambler's debut — it is not, The Dark Frontier (1936) preceding it, and that error in a description is a fair signal to scrutinise the rest of it. No book-club issue of either the Hodder or the Knopf is documented in the sources consulted.