Give the Boys a Great Big Hand

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood Victoria, Australia

First published in the U.S.A. 1960 Published in Great Britain by T.V. Boardman 1962 Published in Penguin Books 1965

Copyright © Ed McBain, 1960

Made and printed in Great Britain by Hunt Barnard & Co. Ltd, Aylesbury Buckinghamshire Set in Monotype Times

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