Sacred Clowns

Sacred Clowns was a Mystery Guild selection and a Literary Guild / Doubleday Book Club alternate, so club copies are common. Tells: a blind stamp (dot, circle, square or similar) impressed into the rear board near the spine; no price present at the jacket flap; frequently a small contrasting code block on the rear panel and a vertical string of numbers near the margin of the last page. A club copy can still print "First Edition" on the copyright page — the physical tells govern.