NMLP P-000221 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

A Murder Is Announced

Agatha Christie · William Collins Sons (UK Crime Club); Dodd, Mead and Company (US) · 1950

UK Collins and US Dodd, Mead both appeared in June 1950 and precedence is uncertain; collectors conventionally defer to the UK Collins edition as the first, but this is a convention rather than an established fact.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-000221 for "A Murder Is Announced" by Agatha Christie (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-000221, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).