Red Threads by Rex Stout is 192 pages long. It is also unique in other ways. While other Bantams sold for 10 cents, Red Threads sold for 15 cents. Unlike the other Bantam books with illustrated covers (numbers 21-28) there is no text version of the cover. It is the only Bantam with a blurb about the book on the back cover rather than an ad and with a published date - 1941.
Red Threads is numbered A1 on the spine. It may have been planned as the first of a series of larger, more expensive, illustrated cover only books. But if so it is the only one published before Bantam Publications folded.
Red Threads was first published in The Mystery Book (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939) as the fifth of five stories by five authors and was published separately by Wm. Collins & Sons (London: 1941). The Bantam edition is abridged.
The book is the same size, 110 mm (4 5/16") wide by 152 mm (6") tall, but is better made than other Bantams. Page collation:
[1] title page
[2] copyright page
3-192 Red Threads
Bantam A1
Bantam A1 back
