Only in a used bookshop ~

Purchased in The Neat L'l Bookshop BIG MAN COMING DOWN THE ROAD, Penguin Canada, 2007. "UNCORRECTED AND UNPUBLISHED PROOFS - CONFIDENTIAL"   Unpublished proofs are the preliminary copies sent out to select critics and media ~ not distributed to the public.

There are often changes in text and/or graphics in the finished product.  For example, the cover of BIG MAN, does not include the lady with the whip!

""All lovers of detective fiction will have their favourites.  But the variety and quality of detective fiction being produced today, both by established writers and by newcomers, will ensure that the future of the genre is in safe hands." ~ P.D. James, Talking about Detective Fiction, Alfred A. Knoft, 2009.