The Dark Tunnel

The census claim is correct: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1944 is the true first, and it is Millar's true debut — the book most often missing from an otherwise complete Ross Macdonald run. No contemporaneous UK edition is documented in the sources consulted, so there is no UK-vs-US precedence question to resolve here and no second edition to name as co-first. The later retitlings are firsts thus only: a paperback reprint carrying the subtitle "The story of a homosexual spy" is recorded, and in 1955 the novel was reissued as I Die Slowly (The Dark Tunnel) under the Lion Library imprint, LL 52. Both dates rest on single sources and should be cited as reported rather than as settled.