Kiss Me, Deadly

No book-club edition tells specific to this title are documented in the sources consulted. The working reprint tell is the Dutton rule itself: the first printing states "First Edition" on the title-page verso, so a copy carrying a later-printing statement, or lacking the stated point where it should appear, is not the first. Given the volume of Spillane reprinting in this period, verify the copyright page rather than relying on the terra cotta cloth, which alone is not diagnostic.