NMLP P-021319 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Absent in the Spring

Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie) · William Collins (UK) · 1944

The UK Collins edition (August 1944) precedes the US Farrar and Rinehart edition of the same year, so the UK printing is the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-021319 for "Absent in the Spring" by Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021319, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).