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CURTAINS FOR THREE

A Bantam Crime Line Book / published by arrangement with Viking Penguin, Inc.

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Viking edition published December 1950

Bantam edition / June 1955 Bantam reissue edition / December 1994

Acknowledgment is made to the american magazine in which these three short

novels originally appeared: Bullet for One, July 1948; The Gun with Wings,

December 1949; and Disguise for Murder, under the title The Twisted Scarf,

'September 1950.

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Copyright � 1948, 1949, 1950 by Rex Stout Introduction copyright � 1994 by Judith Kelman.

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