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Karmesin

Gerald Kersh

First published 1942
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Karmesin

Karmesin relates to Kersh how he successfully robbed a London bank.

Paul Duncan's Karmesin Bibliography in "Karmesin: World's Greatest Criminal – or Most Outrageous Liar" gives the earliest known publication in the newspaper "Evening Standard" May 9, 1936.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1942 Cover Best Stories of the Underworld Faber and Faber Anthology
April 1944 Cover The People, 2 April 1944 Odhams Press MAGAZINE 6
April 1948 Cover Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1948 MAGAZINE
December 1949 Cover Argosy, December 1949 The Amalgamated Press MAGAZINE 25
August 1957 Cover Everybody's Magazine (UK), 17 August 1957 MAGAZINE
June 2003 Cover Karmesin: World's Greatest Criminal – or Most Outrageous Liar Crippen & Landru Publishers Collection 15|2
June 2003 Cover Karmesin: World's Greatest Criminal – or Most Outrageous Liar Crippen & Landru Publishers Collection 15
September 2016 Cover Karmesin: World's Greatest Criminal – or Most Outrageous Liar Crippen & Landru Publishers Collection |2