Stout, Rex 1886-1975

Overview

Works:	1,415 works in 4,656 publications in 7 languages and 82,248 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Detective and mystery stories Bibliography Interviews
Roles:	Bibliographic antecedent, Speaker, Editor, Creator, Contributor, Narrator, Commentator, Author of introduction, Interviewee
Classifications:	PS3537.T733, 813.52

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Publications about Rex Stout

Publications by Rex Stout

Publications by Rex Stout, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Rex Stout

Rex Stout : a biography by John J McAleer ( Book )
Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-fifth Street; the life and times of America's largest private detective by William Stuart Baring-Gould ( Book )
Saint with a gun : the unlawful American private eye by William Ruehlmann ( Book )
Rex Stout by David R Anderson ( Book )
The brownstone house of Nero Wolfe by Ken Darby ( Book )

Archie meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough ( Book )
Murder in the ball park : a Nero Wolfe mystery by Robert Goldsborough ( Book )
Rex Stout, an annotated primary and secondary bibliography by Guy M Townsend ( Book )
At Wolfe's door : the Nero Wolfe novels of Rex Stout by J. Kenneth Van Dover ( Book )
Five of a kind; the third Nero Wolfe omnibus by Rex Stout ( Book )
Corsage : a bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout ( Book )
Rex Stout : a majesty's life by John J McAleer ( Book )
The Archie Goodwin files ( Book )
A birthday tribute to Rex Stout, December 1, 1965 by Jacques Barzun ( Book )
The Nero Wolfe files ( Book )
Royal decree : conversations with Rex Stout by John J McAleer ( Book )
Stout fellow : a guide through Nero Wolfe's world by O. E McBride ( Book )
Rex Stout & the detective story by Rex Stout ( Recording )
Slishkom mnogo klientov : romany, povesti by Rex Stout ( Book )
Rex Stout journal ( )

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Most widely held works by Rex Stout

The doorbell rang : a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
47 editions published between 1965 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,410 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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. The oversize genius and his able assistant Archie Goodwin soon find out why the prize is so generous as they lock horns with the FBI. And these highly trained G-men have a way with threats, tails, and bugs that could give even sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe a run for his money

A family affair : a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
31 editions published between 1955 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,746 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
What could make Nero Wolfe so determined to solve a crime that he would be willing to work entirely without fee or client? What would it take to put him, for the first time, at a loss for words? What would make him so angry about a case that he would refuse to speak to the police, even if he has to spend fifty-one hours in jail as a result? Never before in the Nero Wolfe books has Rex Stout shown us the extremes to which the greatest detective in the world can be pushed, but never before has a bomb blown up in the old brownstone on West 35th Street, murdering someone right under Wolfe's nose. When in October 1974 Pierre Ducos, one of Wolfe's favorite waiters at Rusterman's, Wolfe's favorite restaurant, dies just down the hall from Archie's bedroom, Wolfe is understandably eager to find the perpetrator, but when that murder somehow becomes connected with tape recorders, Washington lawyers, and maybe even a conspiracy to obstruct justice, his fury becomes so intense that even Archie is puzzled. - Jacket flap

Please pass the guilt; a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
36 editions published between 1973 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,642 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A bomb explodes in the desk drawer of a top TV executive. But was the death trap intended for him or for the man who opened the drawer? Each man had a host of enemies, so was it the ambitious business partner, the jealous wife, the office secretary, or the man with blood on his hands? Nero Wolfe finds himself up to his corpulent neck as he and Archie Goodwin sort their way through secrets, over-the-top ambition, and a long list of suspects to find the truth and the guilty party

Death of a doxy : a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
41 editions published between 1936 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,571 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A young woman lies dead and Nero Wolfe's sometime employee, Orrie Cather, is suspected of murder

A right to die; a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
29 editions published between 1964 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When a young, white, financially independent young woman shows up dead, all clues lead to her dapper, black fiance who comes to Nero Wolfe for help

The mother hunt : a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
35 editions published between 1963 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,327 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A beautiful socialite widow comes to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin to ask them to investigate why a baby has been abandoned on her doorstep, in a case that all too quickly leads to murder

Might as well be dead; a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
41 editions published between 1956 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Eleven years after his own thoughtlessness sent his only son, Paul, away from home, Nebraska businessman James Herold calls upon Nero Wolfe to track down the young man so that he can make amends

The father hunt : a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
23 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in English and held by 1,254 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pretty Amy Denovo wants to find the father she has never seen, but she can't afford Nero Wolfe's outlandish fees ... or can she?

Under the Andes by Rex Stout ( )
5 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Champagne for one : a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout ( Book )
39 editions published between 1955 and 2013 in English and held by 1,179 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Whoever administered the deadly dose of champagne isn't talking, and neither is the victim, as Nero Wolfe searches for the antidote to the perfect crime

The second confession by Rex Stout ( Book )
44 editions published between 1949 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,167 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Nero Wolfe finds himself trying to solve a murder and save his own hide from the Mob after a millionaire businessman asks him to look into the background of his daughter's boyfriend

Gambit; a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
58 editions published between 1952 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Archie Goodwin and the great detective tackle a tough case - the murder of an eccentric chess player

The golden spiders; a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
40 editions published between 1953 and 2013 in English and held by 1,091 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Trying to determine why his last two clients were ruthlessly murdered, Nero Wolfe wonders if the answer is linked to a young boy who turns up at his brownstone apartment and finds clues in a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and spider-shaped earrings

In the best families by Rex Stout ( Book )
27 editions published between 1950 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,089 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the third of three Nero Wolfe books that involve crime boss Arnold Zeck and his widespread operations. Sarah and Barry Rackham have been married less than four years. She is a wealthy heiress, while he is neither employed nor independently wealthy. Mrs. Rackham has recently cut off Mr. Rackham's allowance due to his escalating demands, and yet he continues to spend considerable sums of money. Mrs. Rackham wants to know where the money is coming from, and asks Wolfe to investigate. - Wikipedia

If death ever slept : a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
40 editions published between 1957 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,079 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When his assistant, Archie Goodwin, is implicated in a multiple murder at a millionaire's mansion, Nero Wolfe must work quickly to clear Archie's name

Before midnight; a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
35 editions published between 1955 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,076 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When a contestant is killed during the final round of the Pour Amour perfume contest, Nero Wolfe must find the person who stole the recipe to the dead contestant's perfume in order to solve the crime

Death of a dude : a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout ( Book )
18 editions published between 1966 and 1999 in English and held by 1,072 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fer-de-lance by Rex Stout ( Book )
76 editions published between 1934 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 1,055 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A case of multiple murder sends super sleuth Nero Wolfe and his quick-witted legman Archie Goodwin on a desperate hunt for clues, but they soon discover that they may be getting too close to a killer when someone sends them a fer-de-lance, one of the world's most poisonous snakes, as a deadly "gift."

Murder by the book by Rex Stout ( Book )
37 editions published between 1949 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,028 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
If books could kill! Nero Wolfe finds one that can. It's the manuscript of a novel and it's no safer to handle than a king cobra. Before Nero unearths this manuscript he first has to connect the strange death of the girl in the park -- she's a young editor -- with the murder of the man in the law office. Archie nearly sees the third killing. He arrives just two minutes too late. Having conquered the worlds of gastronomy and orchid raising, Nero -- with Archie -- here invades the complex realms of book publishing and the legal profession. - Jacket flap

Her forbidden knight by Rex Stout ( Book )
19 editions published between 1997 and 2013 in English and held by 1,010 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"When Lila Williams, an innocent telegrapher at New York's upscale Lamartine Hotel, becomes enmeshed in a counterfeiting gang, the unlikely knight who comes to her rescue is one of the forgers."--Cover

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