The Quiller Memorandum

The census claim holds. The true first is Collins (London), 1965, titled The Berlin Memorandum — the only English-language appearance under that title. The Simon & Schuster (New York) 1965 edition, retitled The Quiller Memorandum, is the first American edition and follows the Collins; both are collected, the US edition being the source of the title the book is now known by and under which it won the 1966 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel (it also took the 1966 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière). First-thus trap: Collins reissued the novel in the UK in 1967 as The Quiller Memorandum to capitalise on the Harold Pinter-scripted film; that reissue is a first thus, not a first edition. The 2004 Forge edition with an Otto Penzler introduction is likewise a first thus.