<P> The novel was first serialised, heavily abridged, in the UK in the Daily Express starting on Monday 28 September, running for fourteen instalments until Tuesday 13 October 1953 . </P> <P> The novel was first serialised in the US in the Chicago Tribune in forty - two parts from Monday, 11 January to Saturday, 27 February 1954 . </P>

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