NMLP P-042248 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
The Plague Court Murders
Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) · William Morrow & Company (New York) · 1934
The decisive copyright-page test comes from Morrow's house practice: per the Quill & Brush publisher reference, prior to 1973 Morrow only sometimes placed "First Printing (Month, Year)" on the copyright page but always indicated later printings — so the absence of any later-printing notice, not the presence of a first-printing statement, is what identifies the first
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042248 for "The Plague Court Murders" by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042248, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).