NMLP P-025442 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

In the Best Families (UK: Even in the Best Families)

Rex Stout · Viking Press · 1950

The US Viking edition (1950) is the true first. The UK Collins Crime Club edition, retitled Even in the Best Families, followed in 1951.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-025442 for "In the Best Families (UK: Even in the Best Families)" by Rex Stout (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025442, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).