NMLP P-000047 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Bigger They Come (UK: Lam to the Slaughter)

A.A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner) · William Morrow · 1939

The US William Morrow edition is the true first. Issued in the UK as 'Lam to the Slaughter'; first Cool and Lam novel under the Fair pseudonym.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-000047 for "The Bigger They Come (UK: Lam to the Slaughter)" by A.A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-000047, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).