The Mother Hunt

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THE MOTHER HUNT

A Bantam Crime Line Book / published by arrangement with the author’s estate

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Viking edition published 1963

Bantam edition / December 1961

Bantam reissue / May 1993

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Copyright © 1963 by Rex Stout.

Introduction copyright © 1993 by Marilyn Wallace.

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