Triple Jeopardy
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| Author | Rex Stout |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
| Genre(s) | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Released | March 21, 1952 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 216 pp. |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-553-76307-5 |
| Preceded by | Murder by the Book |
| Followed by | Prisoner's Base |
Triple Jeopardy is a collection of Nero Wolfe novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1952. Itself collected in the omnibus volume Kings Full of Aces (Viking 1966), the book is comprised of three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine:
- "Home to Roost" (January 1952, as "Nero Wolfe and the Communist Killer)
- "The Cop-Killer" (February 1951, as "The Cop Killer")
- "The Squirt and the Monkey" (August 1951, as "See No Evil")
Contents |
[edit] Home to Roost
A young man is poisoned shortly after confiding to his aunt that his objectionable advocacy of the Communist party is a front for his undercover work for the FBI.
[edit] The Cop-Killer
Tina and Carl Vardas, employees at the barbershop Archie Goodwin patronizes, are questioned by a policeman after a hit-and-run. When the Vardases flee to the brownstone and desperately ask Archie for help, their overreaction proves to be justified.
[edit] The Squirt and the Monkey
Archie becomes involved with gunplay at the unconventional and uncomfortably warm home of a syndicated cartoonist.
[edit] Adaptations
[edit] Nero Wolfe (CBC)
"The Cop Killer" was adapted as the fourth episode of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 13-part radio series Nero Wolfe (1982), starring Mavor Moore as Nero Wolfe and Don Francks as Archie Goodwin. Written by Ron Hartmann, the hour-long adaptation aired on CBC Stereo February 6, 1982.
"The Squirt and the Monkey" was adapted as the tenth episode of the CBC radio series. Written by Ron Hartmann, the hour-long episode aired March 20, 1982.
[edit] A Nero Wolfe Mystery (A&E Network)
"The Cop-Killer" was adapted for the second season of the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002).
