New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946

8vo, pp. 372. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge red. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, a little darkened and with some chipping to spine ends.

First US edition.

Classic crime novel set in 1930s London, and the basis for Jules Dassin's 1950 film of the same name -- his last before HUAC blacklisting saw him relocate to Europe.

Preceded only by the vanishingly rare UK edition of 1938.