The Maid's Version (2013) Signed First Edition Reference

The Maid’s Version draws on a real event — a 1928 dance hall explosion in West Plains, Missouri, that killed dozens — to create a compressed, haunting novel about a maid who believes the explosion was no accident. Published in 2013, the novel is Woodrell’s most explicitly historical work and one of his most structurally ambitious, moving between past and present with the fluid authority of a master storyteller.

First Edition Identification

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, New York Publication date: 2013 Format: Hardcover in dust jacket

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first edition, fine/fine: $30–$75
• Unsigned first edition: $8–$15

A quiet, beautiful novel that demonstrates Woodrell’s range beyond crime fiction. Collectors who value Woodrell as a literary artist — not merely a genre writer — will want this title on the shelf alongside the Ozark noir novels.