and sixpence) 1935, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1935, Hardcover, 290 pp as The Boomerang Clue (priced at $2.00). 1944, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 46 [mapback]), 224 pp 1956, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 192 pp 1968, Greenway edition of collected works (William Collins), Hardcover, 288 pp 1968, Greenway edition of collected works (Dodd Mead and Company), Hardcover, 288 pp 1974, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 394 pp 1978, Pan, Paperback, 188pp 1980, Pan Books in association with Collins, 188pp 2012, 2022, William Morrow (imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 304pp The novel was first published in the US in the Redbook magazine in a condensed version in the issue for November 1933 (Volume 62, Number 1) under the title The Boomerang Clue with illustrations by Joseph Franké. This version was then published in Six Redbook Novels by The McCall Company in 1933, prior to the publication of the full text by Dodd Mead in 1935. The other five condensed novels in this volume were The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, The Figure in the Fog by Mignon G. Eberhart, The Cross of Peace by Philip Gibbs, White Piracy by James Warner Bellah and Parade Ground by Charles L Clifford. Book dedication The dedication of the book reads: "To Christopher Mallock in memory of Hinds" The Mallock family were friends of Christie's from the years before her first marriage. They staged amateur theatricals at their house, Cockington Court, near Torquay in which Christie, managing to overcome her usual crippling shyness, took part. The allusion to Hinds is unknown. Dustjacket blurb The blurb on the inside flap of the dustjacket of the first UK edition (which is also repeated opposite the title page) reads:"Believe it or not, Bobby Jones had topped his drive! He was badly bunkered. There were no eager crowds to groan with dismay. That is easily explained – for Bobby was merely the fourth son of the Vicar of Marchbolt, a small golfing resort on the Welsh coast. And Bobby, in spite of his name, was not much of a golfer. Still, that game was destined to be a memorable one. On going to play his ball, Bobby suddenly came upon the body of a man. He bent over him. The man was not yet dead. "Why didn't they ask Evans?" he said, and then the eyelids dropped, the jaw fell... It was the beginning of