Heinemann

In the same year that she lost the legal battle over her taxes, GH began working as a reader for Heinemann , her own publisher. For this she earned only two guineas per book, but...

She had begun the story in order to amuse her sick brother Boris. Her father encouraged her to prepare her work for publication, and she dedicated the book to him by his initials. She sent...

GH published at least one book a year in England between 1921 and 1960, sometimes more. Her publication history in the United States is more sporadic because she did not have an established American publisher...

Pressed for money, GH sold three of her most valuable copyrights (this book, These Old Shades, and Devil's Cub) to Heinemann for a total of only £750.

Heinemann printed 110,000 copies; Foyles Book Club came out with an edition of 172,500. Putnam of New York bought the US rights to the novel. (GH disparaged their enthusiasm as typically American.)

It was in this year that GH signed contracts with Heinemann for three historical romances and with Hodder and Stoughton for four detective stories. This particular novel appeared in the United States as Merely Murder.

PH , writing from the mid-twentieth century, first in the USA and then in Europe and England, produced short stories and novels, the majority of them variously classifiable as thrillers or suspense fiction, a...

The first version was rejected by Harper and Row with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters. After writing and publishing an...

It was published in the UK in February of that year by Heinemann , and was dedicated to Lil Picard .

The book was published in New York by Doubleday (as a straightforward non-genre novel rather than a crime thriller) and later the same year in the UK by Heinemann . PH had to struggle to...

PH dedicated this book to her biological father, at a time when she was on the worst of terms with her mother, and receiving a stream of destructive letters from her. Heinemann published it in...

The book was published in the UK by Heinemann , and in New York later the same year by Simon and Schuster .

Other editions followed that same year, including one in the UK from Heinemann and a translation from Diogenes in Zurich. There was controversy over this publication. Heinemann had increased PH 's advance by nearly...

PH was first published in London when Heinemann issued Deep Water: A Novel of Suspense (already published by Harper and Row in New York in 1957 as Deep Water).

PH published (after a long struggle) her novel The Two Faces of January with Heinemann , and later that same year it became the first of her books to be published by Doubleday in New York.