NMLP P-028556 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
From Doon with Death
Ruth Rendell · John Long (London) · 1964
UK John Long (1964) is the true first; the US Doubleday edition (1965) followed. Rendell's debut novel and the first Inspector Wexford book. Many copies went into UK lending libraries, so unmarked copies in jacket are genuinely scarce.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028556 for "From Doon with Death" by Ruth Rendell (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028556, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).