“Patrick Quentin” was the pseudonym of Hugh Wheeler and Richard Wilson Webb
published in the US in 1952 as Black Widow, a Simon & Schuster hardcover. published the following year in the UK by Gollancz with this different title. 8th with Broadway producer Peter Duluth.
cover art by Sam Peffer?
1953 Knopf hardcover, 1st edition – cover by Bill English
one of the two non-series that he wrote amongst the Archers
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1954 Pocket reissue – cover art by Clark Hulings
better image than previously posted
cover art by Sam Peffer
May 1959 Pocket paperback, 3rd print
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1972 Bantam edition, 2nd print
2010 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue
[updated 9/13/25, 8/20/26]
