Books written by Rex Stout

  • The Black Mountain

    The neat little blonde came and joined me at the rail, and if you had guessed her Gibson intake from the way she looked you would have been away off. She was just a happy and healthy little doll with nice clear eyes and a clear, ...

  • The Nero Wolfe Primer

    In cludes three books. "And be a villiain", "Black orchids' and "Champagne for one."

  • Where There's a Will

    Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.

  • Her Forbidden Knight

    The very first novel from the classic crime writer Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight gives the reader a glimpse of the cunning devices and charades of the celebrated Nero Wolfe mysteries that followed in the author’s later years.

  • Death Times Three

    First, Rex Stout’s great detective, Nero Wolfe, develops an appetite for the sweet taste of revenge when someone slips something most foul into his lunch—in a case motivated by the most “alimentary” of passions.

  • Triple Jeopardy

    Rex Strout's Triple Jeopardy—three separate, complete and exciting adventures with Nero Wolfe, the celebrated armchair detective, and Nero's extra arms and legs, the inimitable Archie Goodwin—three top-drawer Nero Wolfe Mysteries, all ...

  • Murder by the Book: A Nero Wolfe Novel

    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...

  • The Nero Wolfe Cookbook

    A one-of-its-kind, high-cuisine cookbook that reproduces authentic recipes for many of the fine dishes mentioned in Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries.

  • Bitter End and The Last Drive

    “Some devilish trick that's caught me unawares. Totally undiscoverable. I had Mac go around with me yesterday, ... But for pesky, petty, unholy tricks, nothing can equal golf. Incomprehensible. Satanic. All at once, from nowhere, ...

  • Over My Dead Body

    Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.

  • Homicide Trinity

    Three murders, counterfeit money, and a soup-stained tie that becomes a deadly weapon engulf grand master of detection Nero Wolfe and his sidekick Archie in intrigue

  • Death of a Dude

    Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.

  • Three for the Chair

    A vast fortune in uranium, international diplomacy and intrigue, and a female detective become the focus of a trio of mysteries featuring epicurean sleuth Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin. Reissue.

  • The Rex Stout Reader: Her Forbidden Knight and A Prize for Princes

    For nothing here is quite what it seems, not even the safety Lila thinks she finds in the arms of the man who quickens the beat of her heart.

  • Fer-de-lance: &, The League of Frightened Men

    Multiple murders send sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin on a desperate hunt for clues, but they may be getting too close when someone sends them one of the world's most poisonous snakes as a deadly "gift," in Fer-de-Lance, and ...

  • Homicide Trinity: A Nero Wolfe Threesome

    A deadly trio of Nero Wolfe classics. It's a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe's hallowed turf. It's a gun-toting wife who serves up a confession of...

  • The Mountain Cat Murders: A Novel

    ... for Three Prisoner's Base Triple Jeopardy If Death Ever Slept Three for the Chair Champagne for One And Four to Go Plot It Yourself Too Many Clients Three at Wolfe's Door The Final Deduction Gambit Homicide Trinity The Mother Hunt A ...

  • Too Many Clients

    So Nero Wolfe has a healthy head start on solving the crime. Then comes a snag: a bidding war erupts for the reclusive sleuth's services. Suddenly Wolfe has too many clients, including one who's party to murder. . .

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 1 No. 4) July 1977

    The MYSTERY FANcier Volume 1 Number k July 1977 TABLE OF CONTENTS MYSTERIOUSLY SPEAKING 1 The Mysteries of the Pseudonymous Professors, by Joseph Barbato 3 The Wit and Wisdom of the Mystery Story: Quotations from the Mysteries — Part IV ...

  • The President Vanishes

    With the threat of imminent war hanging over Europe, the American President suddenly disappears in a masterful crime that places suspicion on cabinet members, political extremists, and an influential publisher