NMLP P-013665 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Purple Cane Road

James Lee Burke · Doubleday · 2000

The US Doubleday edition (New York, 2000) is the true first edition; eleventh Dave Robicheaux novel. A separate British edition (Orion/Weidenfeld) followed and does not precede the US Doubleday first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-013665 for "Purple Cane Road" by James Lee Burke (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013665, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).