Their Rainbow Had Black Edges

Their Rainbow Had Black Edges
Cover artwork of Jarrolds Publishing's 1943 first hardcover edition.
AuthorGerald Butler
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime, thriller
Set inEngland
PublisherJarrolds
Publication date
July 1943 (1943-07)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
OCLC12643003

Their Rainbow Had Black Edges is a 1943 crime thriller novel by English writer Gerald Butler.[1] It is his third novel and is written in the noir style popular at the time.[2]

The first British hardcover edition was published by Jarrolds Publishing in July 1943.[3] This was Butler's first novel to be published outside of England,[4] with American publishers Farrar & Rinehart signing him to a multi-book contract. Their Rainbow Had Black Edges was published in the United States under the alternative title Dark Rainbow on 8 November 1945.[5]

  1. ^ Hubin p.59
  2. ^ Johnson p.28
  3. ^ "Jul 06, 1943, page 2 - Western Mail at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  4. ^ The Lewiston Daily Sun. The Lewiston Daily Sun.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Stanford was invoked but never defined (see the help page).