The Greene Murder Case

The US edition — Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1928 — is the true first; the novel was serialized in Scribner's Magazine in early 1928 (the February 1928 issue is confirmed) ahead of book publication. The UK edition is Ernest Benn, London, 1928, the first English edition and separately collected; The Spectator reviewed the Benn edition on 5 May 1928, consistent with the US book preceding it. Benn issued a fourth impression in 1930, so the Benn imprint alone does not establish a first. The census claim (US Scribner's 1928 precedes UK Benn 1928) is confirmed.