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Unexpected Night - Editions and Variants

[unni] Daly, Elizabeth. Unexpected Night. [Henry Gamadge] First published in book form in March 1940. The first Gamadge mystery, set in a summer resort community in the coast of Maine - Ogunquit is somewhere nearby. Listed under "Books Published Today" in the New York Times March 7, 1940, p. 28. This was runner up in the first Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery Novel Prize contest; Frank Gruber's "The French Key" was another runner up; the winner was "I Wanted to Murder" by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman.

Reviewed in the NYT Book Review March 10th, 1940 page 102: The title - so happily portenteou and delightfully grim - is from Thomas Lovell Bedoes: "Eventful unexpected night, which finishes a row of plotting days". And the story fulfills all that phrase’s implications. The author is a writer of light verse who has not hitherto essay ed this type of light fiction. but this novel has won her honorable mention in the Mary Robets Rinehart mystery contest, and with her skill and sit and suavity we hope she is in this field to stay.

Cover image from Farrar & Rinehart edition of 1940 [fr40.2] Daly, Elizabeth. Unexpected Night. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. 265p. hardcover. Published March 1940. Cover image via LibraryThing. [References] WorldCat [key word searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris
 
[vg40.23] Daly, Elizabeth. Unexpected Night. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940. 223p. hardcover. [References] WorldCat British Library [key word searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris
Cover image from Military Service Publishing Co edition of 1944(?) [ms40.24] Daly, Elizabeth. Unexpected Night. Harrisburg: Military Service Publishing Co, 1944(?). 219p. other. M639 - with the Superior Reprints imprint. 4th printing reported for June 1945. Cover image via LibraryThing. [References] WorldCat Superior Reprints at Wikipedia [key word searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris
Cover image from Berkley edition of 1964 [bk64.22] Daly, Elizabeth. Unexpected Night. New York: Berkley, 1964. 175p. mass market pbk. Berkley Medallion F882. [key word searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris
Cover image from Bantam edition of 1986 [bt80.25] Daly, Elizabeth. Unexpected Night. New York: Bantam, 1986. 230p. mass market pbk. Isbn: 0553251295. January 1986. Cover image via LibraryThing. [References] WorldCat [key word searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris [ Isbn searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris
 
[tp91.26] Daly, Elizabeth. Unexpected Night. Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1991. 175p. large print. Isbn: 1560540796. [References] WorldCat [key word searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris [ Isbn searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris
Cover image from Otto Penzler Books edition of 1994 [op94.27] Daly, Elizabeth. Unexpected Night. New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1994. 175p. trade pkb. Isbn: 1883402514. Series: Otto Penzler's Classic American Mystery Library [References] WorldCat [key word searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris [ Isbn searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris
Cover image from Felony & Mayhem Press edition of 2013 [fm13.1] Daly, Elizabeth. Unexpected Night. New York: Felony & Mayhem Press, 2013. 211p. trade pkb. Isbn: 1937384772. x [References] WorldCat [Publisher] Publisher [key word searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris [ Isbn searches] Abebooks Amazon Biblio Alibris