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Rex Stout
Full Series List in Order
Inspector Cramer
1 - Homicide Trinity (Jan-1962)2 - The Mother Hunt (Jan-1963)
3 - Red Threads (Nov-1995)
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
1 - Fer-De-Lance (1934)2 - The League of Frightened Men (1935)
3 - The Rubber Band (1936)
4 - The Red Box (1937)
5 - Too Many Cooks (1938)
6 - Some Buried Caesar (1939)
7 - Over My Dead Body (1939)
8 - Where There's a Will (1940)
9 - Black Orchids (1942)
10 - Not Quite Dead Enough (1944)
11 - The Silent Speaker (1946)
12 - Too Many Women (1947)
13 - And Be a Villain (1948)
14 - The Second Confession (Jan-1949)
15 - Trouble in Triplicate (Jan-1949)
16 - In the Best Families (1950)
17 - Three Doors to Death (1950)
18 - Curtains for Three (1950)
19 - Murder by the Book (Jan-1951)
20 - Triple Jeopardy (Jan-1952)
21 - Prisoner's Base (Jan-1952)
22 - The Golden Spiders (Jan-1953)
23 - Three Men Out (1954)
24 - The Black Mountain (Jan-1954)
25 - Before Midnight (Jan-1955)
26 - Three Witnesses (1956)
27 - Might As Well Be Dead (1956)
28 - If Death Ever Slept // If Death Ever Sleeps (1957)
29 - Three for the Chair (1957)
30 - Champagne for One (Jan-1958)
31 - And Four to Go (Jan-1958)
32 - Plot It Yourself (1959)
33 - Too Many Clients (1960)
34 - Three at Wolfe's Door (1960)
35 - The Final Deduction (1961)
36 - Gambit (Jan-1962)
37 - Homicide Trinity (Jan-1962)
38 - The Mother Hunt (Jan-1963)
39 - A Right to Die (1964)
40 - Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964)
41 - The Door Bell Rang (1965)
42 - Death of a Doxy (1966)
43 - The Father Hunt (1968)
44 - Death of a Dude (1969)
45 - Please Pass the Guilt (1973)
46 - A Family Affair (1975)
47 - Death Times Three (1985)
More Deaths Than One ()
The Cop-Killer ()
Five of a Kind (Jan-1961)
Tecumseh Fox
1 - Double for Death (1939)2 - Bad for Business (1940)
3 - The Broken Vase (1941)
Book List in Order: 86 titles
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Fer-De-Lance
- 1934
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Rarely stirring from his luxurious brownstone, the fat (one-seventh of a ton), beer-drinking, orchid-fancying mastermind spins his webs of uncanny deduction--while his wry, tough sidekick Archie tends to the legwork (and the girl-watching). Wolfe's c...
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The League of Frightened Men
- 1935
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Nero Wolfe is the superlative detective of gargantuan girth. An no this orchid-growing genius of deduction, with the help of his trusted assistant, Archie Goodwin, must discover why two embers of The Harvard Club suddenly died and why a third member ...
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The Rubber Band
- 1936
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THE PLEDGE OF THE RUBBER BAND ... began in Silver City, Nevada, at the turn of the century. When the whole mess fell into Nerds lap, the sedentary detective and Archie Goodwin had to crack a mystery that stretched across four decades and five thousa...
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The Red Box
- 1937
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The imperturbable orchid-growing genius is none other than Nero Wolfe. Together with his confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, he enters the seamy world of high fashion to solve a distasteful murder. One girl is dead, a victim of her sweet tooth. W...
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Too Many Cooks
- 1938
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World--class cuisine, charming company... The secret ingredient is poison. As the great detective prepares to speak at a gathering of the world's great chefs, one is found indelicately murdered. When the target for killing shifts to himself, Wolfe...
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Double for Death
- 1939
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Sly Tecumseh Fox has a sharp eye for clues in a murder case -- but this time he's seeing double. The late financier Ridley Thorpe has been shot twice. There are two gorgeous suspects, two very good motives, two hotheaded suitors, and two well-used mu...
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Over My Dead Body
- 1939
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When a Balkan beauty gets in trouble over some missing diamonds, whom else can she turn to but the world-famous Nero Wolfe? Especially since she claims to be Wolfe's long-lost daughter! The stakes are suddenly raised when a student at this woman's fe...
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Some Buried Caesar
- 1939
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An automobile breakdown strands Nero Wolfe and Archie in the middle of a private pasture--and a family feud over a prize bull. A restaurateur's plan to buy the stud and barbecue it as a publicity stunt may be in poor taste, but it isn't a crime...unt...
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Bad for Business
- 1940
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IN THE RED Amy Duncan was a beautiful working girl who had a strong attachment to her job, an affection for her boss, and a frightening v ay of attracting trouble. Private investigator Tecumseh Fox met her when she literally walked into the' bumpe...
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Where There's a Will
- 1940
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Why did the late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne leave his sisters, April, May, and June, a peach, a pear, and an apple? Why did he will the bulk of his considerable estate to a woman who was most definitely not his wife? Now Nero Wolfe, able, astute...
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The Broken Vase
- 1941
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When death stages a performance at Carnegie Hall, Tecumseh Fox goes backstage to catch the killer who pulled the strings. Who stole the dead man's Stradivarius--only to send it back? And what about the deadly duet featuring a stolen Ming vase and an ...
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The Sound of Murder
- 1941
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MEET THE AMAZING ALPHABET HICKS... Disbarred lawyer, uncommon cabby, and investigator extraordinary, who confronts cynical cops and conniving corporations as he pieces together a complex series of confusing clues to trap a cold-blooded killer....
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Black Orchids
- 1942
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Nero Wolfe has left his comfortable brownstone for the promise of a remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show--but before Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, have a chance to stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring m...
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Not Quite Dead Enough
- 1944
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The army wants Nero Wolfe urgently, but he refuses their clarion call to duty. It takes Archie Goodwin to titillate Wolfe's taste for crime with two malevolent morsels: a corpse that refuses to rest in peace and a sinister "accident" involving nation...
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The Silent Speaker
- 1946
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When a powerful government official, scheduled to speak to a group of millionaires, turns up dead, it is an event worthy of the notice of the great Nero Wolfe. Balancing on the edge of financial ruin, the orchid-loving detective grudgingly accepts th...
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Too Many Women
- 1947
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Who murdered Waldo Wilmot Moore? Well, there were five hundred female employees at the Wall Street firm where poor Waldo had worked. There was also the beautiful lady stockholder who tried to bribe Archie. And the dark-haired lovely who simply couldn...
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And Be a Villain
- 1948
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Madeline Fraser, radio talk show host extraordinaire, had a natural dread of dead air. So when one of her on air guests signed off at the mike after drinking a glass of a sponsor's beverage, it was a broadcaster's nightmare come true. Enter Nero Wolf...
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The Second Confession
- Jan-1949
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When a millionaire businessman hires Nero Wolfe to probe the background of his daughter's boyfriend, it seems like just another case of an overprotective father. But when a powerful gangland boss "counsels" the detective to drop the matter, Wolfe rea...
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Trouble in Triplicate
- Jan-1949
- / Private Investigator
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A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained--and puzzled--millions of mys...
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Curtains for Three
- 1950
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In these three baffling mysteries of motive and murder, even the great Nero Wolfe finds himself stumped. First there is the case of the two passionate lovebirds who want to make sure that neither is a cold-blooded killer. Then it’s off to the races...
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In the Best Families
- 1950
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The aging millionairess has a problem: where is her young playboy husband getting all his money? To help find the answer, Archie infiltrates a party at her palatial estate. But her late-night murder ruins the festive mood...and a letter bomb from a p...
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Three Doors to Death
- 1950
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One by one they knock on the door of the incomparable Nero Wolfe, each with a case more perplexing than the one before. First comes the niece of a man who committed suicide by jumping naked into a geyser, only to return just in time to be murdered. T...
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The Affair of the Twisted Scarf
- 1950
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When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed,...
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Murder by the Book
- Jan-1951
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“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewIntroduction by David HandlerIt wasn’t Leonard Dykes’s writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome ...
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Prisoner's Base
- Jan-1952
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When Priscilla Eads, heiress to cotton-towel millions, first pleads for Nero Wolfe's assistance, the portly detective decides to wash his hands of a case that has more than its share of dirty laundry. Just hours later Miss Eads and her maid are found...
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Triple Jeopardy
- Jan-1952
- / Private Investigator
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The incredibly brilliant Nerd Wolfe is the orchid-growing gourmet whose sheer genius at deduction is without peer. Together with his confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, he must draw; upon all his enormous talent and versatility to solve three sep...
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The Golden Spiders
- Jan-1953
- / Private Investigator
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A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained--and puzzled--millions of mys...
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The Black Mountain
- Jan-1954
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When Marko Vukcic, one of Nero Wolfe's closest friends, is gunned down to cold blood, the great detective takes it personally, pledging to do everything in his considerable power to bring the killer to justice. But Wolfe's reckless vow draws him into...
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Three Men Out
- 1954
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The legendary Nero Wolfe finds himself deep in foul territory in these three baffling cases of murder and mayhem. In the first, some sharp questions about a poisoning come to an abrupt end-as. in death by blunt instrument. Then Wolfe must decode the ...
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Before Midnight
- Jan-1955
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The scent of murder is in the air at the great Pour Amour perfume contest, and the incomparable Nero Wolfe is intent on sniffing out the killer. The foul deed is committed during the contest's final round. Only five riddles separate the contestants f...
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Might As Well Be Dead
- 1956
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Eleven years ago, wealthy Nebraska businessman James Herold gave his only son, Paul, a very raw deal. Now he wants Nero Wolfe to track Paul down so that he can make amends. But what if the young man doesn't want to be found...and what if he's the sam...
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Three Witnesses
- 1956
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One missing will, two million disputed dollars... Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwill get down to cases--three separate ones, in fact, that hinge on crucial testimony from a black Labrador retriever, a dead man and the great detective himself. Step ...
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If Death Ever Slept // If Death Ever Sleeps
- 1957
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Murder lurks in the wings of the sprawling Fifth Avenue penthouse of multimillionaire Otis Jarrell, who has just retained the incomparable Nero Wolfe on a case of the utmost confidentiality. But even the master detective cannot prevent tragedy when i...
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Three for the Chair
- 1957
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Follow the world's greatest detective on a trail of money, mayhem, and murder in three cases of capital crime. The trail of bodies begins with the death of a self-made millionaire, a fortune in uranium, and the perfect weapon ...which no longer exist...
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And Four to Go
- Jan-1958
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Embark on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring with sudden death at the Easter Parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked...
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Champagne for One
- Jan-1958
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Faith Usher had a decidedly morbid personality. She talked about taking her life, and kept cyanide in her purse. So when she collapses and dies from a lethal champagne cocktail in the middle of a high society dinner party, everyone calls it suicide--...
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Plot It Yourself
- 1959
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A poisoned drink, a misplaced paragraph ... a pretty young corpse. Hired to capture an ingenious plagiarizer, the great detective soon finds himself smack in the middle of a bloody murder mystery... a mystery that has the leading lights of New Yor...
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Three at Wolfe's Door
- 1960
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Three murder cases place arrogant, gormandizing sleuth Nero Wolfe at an exclusive dinner party where arsenic is served, in a wandering cab with a dead lady driver, and at a rodeo championship....
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Too Many Clients
- 1960
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The dead man had one too many lovers. Nero Wolfe's resourceful assistant Archie Goodwin finds that out when he stumbles into the room where the businessman has been murdered: a love nest lined with red satin and fleshy paintings. Besides the decor --...
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Five of a Kind
- Jan-1961
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Includes the stories: The Rubber Band THE PLEDGE OF THE RUBBER BAND ... began in Silver City, Nevada, at the turn of the century. When the whole mess fell into Nerds lap, the sedentary detective and Archie Goodwin had to crack a mystery that str...
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The Final Deduction
- 1961
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When high-society kidnapping unexpectedly turns to very seamy murder, all concerned turn to the great detective, Nero Wolfe, for the missing piece in the puzzle.A missing typewriter, a mysterious ransom note -- and a beautiful corpse. Step into the u...
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Homicide Trinity
- Jan-1962
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It’s a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe’s hallowed turf -- and leave a corpse strangled with Wolfe’s own soup-stained tie. But no sooner does the gourmandizing sleuth clean up this first course of murder than he faces a gun-toting ...
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The Mother Hunt
- Jan-1963
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When an abandoned baby is left on her doorstep, the young socialite widow knows only too well the identity of the father: her deceased philanderer of a husband. But who is the mother? The case seems like child's play to Wolfe, until the first dead bo...
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A Right to Die
- 1964
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She had everything: money, beauty, a devoted fiance...and then she became the victim of a crime in black and white. Susan Brooke was young, bright, attractive, financially independent, white--and murdered. All the clues point to her dapper, dauntl...
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Trio for Blunt Instruments
- 1964
- / Private Investigator
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TROUBLE COMES IN THREES If Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, would ever admit to an Achilles' heel -- which they wouldn't -- it would be a weakness for damsels in distress. In these three charming chillers the duo answer the call of helpless hero...
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The Door Bell Rang
- 1965
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There's no one or nothing the great detective Nero Wolfe wouldn't take on if the price was right. That's something wealthy society widow Rachel Bruner is counting on when she writes him a check for a whopping hundred grand. But even Wolfe has a momen...
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Royal Flush
- Aug-1965
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No dust jacket. A book of this grade is in acceptable shape to read and store. Definitely content are intact. Generally sturdy spine with all pages intact physically. Generally solid cover. Typically have decent shelve wear. Might includes acceptable...
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Death of a Doxy
- 1966
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A kept woman, two kinds of blackmail, a beautiful corpse ... Private eye Orrie Cather sometimes did legwork for Nero Wolfe--but now he's the poor sap in need of the great detective. The pretty young thing he dallied with had gotten herself inconve...
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The Father Hunt
- 1968
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AMY WAS 22, BEAUTIFUL, CHARMING -- AND THE KEEPER OF A LITTLE BOX WITH MORE THAN A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS IN IT. IT WAS FROM HER FATHER, BUT SHE HAD NEVER SEEN HIM AND DIDN'T KNOW HIS NAME. SO SHE BUTTONHOLED ARCHIE TO FIND HIM, AND ARCHIE FAST...
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Death of a Dude
- 1969
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A pregnant daughter, an angry father...a dead lover. The great detective travels to Montana, eats canned soup, makes his own bed and assists Archie on a very messy rifle-shot murder. Step into the unassuming Thirty-fifth Street brownstone, and ...
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Three Aces
- May-1971
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Three Aces
Happiness is a Nero Wolfe mystery for so many aficionados of civilized crime stories that the Omnibus has become a valued tradition; there have been five before this, each gathering a few previously published Rex Stouts in one vol... -
Please Pass the Guilt
- 1973
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A bomb blows up in the desk of a top TV executive. Was it intended for him or the man who opened the drawer? They each had enemies enough to die a dozen times over. Was it the jealous wife or the ambitious partner? The secretary who got passed around...
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A Family Affair
- 1975
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Nero Wolfe's last recorded case! Wolfe never works without a well-heeled client and a sizable fee, but when a bomb rocks his brownstone, killing his favorite waiter from his favorite restaurant, the world's greatest gourmet takes it as a personal aff...
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Justice Ends At Home and Other Stories
- Sep-1977
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John McAleer, Editor, Viking, 1977, 267 pages. Description: book; Gray boards with black cloth spine, silver and pink titles to spine only, plain endpapers. Dust jacket; black with white, green and pink text, photo of Stout on front and both author a...
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The President Vanishes
- Oct-1982
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The President of the United States has vanished. As the guns of war begin to fire in Europe, wild rumors spread through the nation's capital. Some guess the right-wing Gray Shirts have kidnapped him. Others blame the Communists. But the Secret Servic...
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Death Times Three
- 1985
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Now, with the aid of the Stout estate and Stout's official biographer, John McAleer, Bantam Books is proud to publish for the first time in book form this newly discovered collection of three Nero Wolfe novellas. ASSAULT ON A BROWNSTONE, the never-be...
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Under the Andes
- May-1985
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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The scene was not exactly new to me. Moved by the spirit of adventure, or by an access of ennui which overtakes me at times, I had several times visited the gaudy establishment of Mercer, on the fashionable...
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The Hand in the Glove
- Jan-1986
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Wealthy industrialist P. L. Storrs has never approved of lady detectives, and he normally would not have made an exception of Theodolina "Dol" Bonner. But faced with a very delicate problem and surprisingly impressed, he hires her instantly. It seems...
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Canine Crimes
- Dec-1993
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A collection of classic canine capers features Edward D. Hoch's ""The Theft of the Barking Dog,"" Margery Allingham's ""The Chocolate Dog,"" Jean Potts's ""The Withered Heart,"" Rex Stout's ""A Dog in the Daytime,"" and others....
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The Mountain Cat Murders
- Dec-1993
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Having announced to the folks of Cody, Wyoming, that she intended to shoot a man with her father's .38, it was little wonder that Delia Brand was arrested for just such a crime. But what the police didn't understand was that Miss Brand had marked ano...
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A Prize for Princes
- Apr-1994
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Beautiful and deadly, Aline Solini is a study in pure evil. First encountered in a Balkan convent about to be sacked by marauding Turkish forces, she is rescued by Richard Stetton, a wealthy American who becomes totally captivated by her. His wealth ...
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Red Threads
- Nov-1995
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Val Carew had come a long way -- from Oklahoma to Wall Street -- only to be clubbed to death at his wife’s tomb. The wealthy financier had built the magnificent crypt in memory of his beautiful Cherokee bride, whose premature death left behind a lo...
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The Great Legend
- May-1997
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Told in the tradition of this master storyteller, The Great Legend is a historical novel set in Troy during the ninth year of the siege. Full of classical characters, it is the engaging story of a Trojan warrior caught not only between Troy and Greec...
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Her Forbidden Knight
- Aug-1997
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Follow the fortunes of the beautiful and naïve Lila Williams, a telegraph operator at New York’s swankiest hotel -- the Lamartine -- as she becomes unwittingly enmeshed in the operations of a shady counterfeiting ring. By chance, the innocent Li...
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Target Practice
- Feb-1998
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Collects, for the first time, seventeen of the author's best early short stories, including his first crime story "Secrets" and "Justice Ends at Home," which features a prototype of his famous creation, detective Nero Wolfe. Original....
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An Officer and a Lady and Other Stories
- Jun-2000
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A collection of early stories from the man who created Nero Wolfe Bill Farden is an experienced burglar. He gains entry to the house without effort, and his ears tell him the inhabitants are asleep. He pockets the silver and moves to the kitchen, ...
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Dark Revenge
- Jun-2010
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What's a lawyer to do when beautiful Delia Brand confesses of her plans to kill Dan Jackson and Jackson soon turns up dead. Accused of murdering him with her father's .38 in the town of Cody, Wyoming, Delia Brand sets out to find the real killer, and...
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Nine Short Stories
- Apr-2012
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Collection of nine short mystery stories:
-An Officer and a Lady
-The Rope Dance
-Warner & Wife
-Jonathan Stannard's Secret Vice
-A Tyrant Abdicates
-Rose Orchid
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Justice Ends at Home
- Dec-2013
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Justice Ends at Home was originally published in the Pulp magazine All-Story Weekly. It is both a legal thriller and a detective story. All scholars of Stout’s work agree that its main characters, the phlegmatic, middle-aged Simon Leg and his youth...
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The Last Drive
- Dec-2013
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Rex Stout -- famous as the creator of the Nero Wolfe mysteries -- published this early, golf-themed mystery in 1916. Featuring death on the links, this tale is full of golfing, red herrings, and a detective determined to run down the villain. A grea...
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Warner & Wife
- Aug-2014
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Warner & Wife was originally published in January 30, 1915 issue of the Pulp magazine All-Story Cavalier Weekly. It is sort of a legal thriller, the story of a partnership fifteen years in the making. This is one of the novella length stories written...
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The Last Drive: And Other Stories
- May-2015
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Eleven early tales of mystery, murder, and mayhem from the creator of Nero Wolfe. When Colonel Phillips begins his final game of golf, his greatest problem in life is that he has begun to slice the ball. Playing with his lawyer and nephews, Phillips ...
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Seed on the Wind
- Nov-2023
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One woman, four men, countless temptations on the streets of New York. This lost novel from legendary "Nero Wolfe" creator Rex Stout -- unpublished for more than 90 years -- presents a gripping psychological puzzle and a heroine you’ll never forget...
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