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Description	Illustration from The American Magazine's November 1934 printing of "Point of Death" (1934) by Rex Stout, an abridged version of Fer-de-Lance, the first Nero Wolfe novel
Source	Self scan from The American Magazine for November 1934 (pp. 12-13)
Date	1934
Author	Fred Ludekens (illustrator) for The American Magazine, a division of Crowell Publishing Company
Permission (Reusing this image)	Fair use of art to illustrate the subject, the Rex Stout story Fer-de-Lance; for informational purposes only

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This image is of a drawing, painting, print, or other two-dimensional work of art, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the artist who produced the image, the person who commissioned the work, or the heirs thereof. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of works of art

for critical commentary on
- the work in question,
- the artistic genre or technique of the work of art or
- the school to which the artist belongs
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

Though this image is subject to copyright, I feel its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

This is an image created and uploaded for informational purposes only.
The image is an accurate scan and includes all of the art created for the magazine spread, as well as the caption and artist credit
This image is of much lower resolution than the original. It cannot be used for high-resolution printing, and any copies made from it will be of inferior quality.
Use of this image in the article Fer-de-Lance adds to it significantly because it is the first visual representation of the article's subject, Nero Wolfe, and illustrates the first appearance of the story in The American Magazine
The copyright owner's rights to reproduce the image are not limited in any way.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Fer-de-Lance (book)
Description	Fred Ludekens illustration for "Point of Death" (1934), an abridged version of Fer-de-Lance, the first Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout
Source	Self scan from The American Magazine for November 1934 (pp. 12-13)
Article	Fer-de-Lance (book)
Portion used	Image is not cropped; includes the artist credit and caption
Low resolution?	670 x 600 pixels at 72 ppi
Purpose of use	Informational purposes only, to illustrate the article on the story Fer-de-Lance
Replaceable?	Not replaceable; there is no free version of this image. It is an original work of art from 1934, and it is the only image representing the introduction of its subject.

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current	21:49, 12 April 2008	670×600 (526 KB)	WFinch (Talk \| contribs)
	13:09, 9 May 2007	800×716 (772 KB)	WFinch (Talk \| contribs)
	00:14, 7 April 2007	800×715 (779 KB)	WFinch (Talk \| contribs)	({{Information\|Stout-POD-1.jpg \|Description = Illustration from The American Magazine's November 1934 printing of "Point of Death" (1934) by Rex Stout, an abridged version of ''Fer-de-Lance," the first Nero Wolfe novel \|Source = Self scan from The American)