A Clubbable Woman

UK Collins Crime Club, London, 1970 is the true first — the census claim is confirmed. It is Hill's first book and the first Dalziel & Pascoe novel. The first American edition did not follow until fourteen years later: Foul Play Press / The Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vermont, published 28 September 1984, in dark grey cloth with gilt-stamped spine titling, 256pp. That US edition is collected in its own right as the first American edition but is not the true first, and it should not be confused with one.