NMLP P-016680 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Silent Partner

Jonathan Kellerman · Bantam · 1989

The US Bantam hardcover is the true first, published September 1989. A UK first appeared the same year from Macdonald (simulated black cloth in a pictorial jacket); the two are near-simultaneous, with the US Bantam edition taken as the trade first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-016680 for "Silent Partner" by Jonathan Kellerman (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-016680, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).