Triple Jeopardy
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| Author | Rex Stout |
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| Cover artist | Bill English |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
| Genre(s) | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Publication date | March 21, 1952 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 216 pp. (first edition) |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | Murder by the Book |
| Followed by | Prisoner's Base |
Triple Jeopardy is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery 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 comprises 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")
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[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] 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). Written by Jennifer Salt and directed by John R. Pepper, "Cop Killer" made its debut August 11, 2002, on A&E.
Timothy Hutton is Archie Goodwin; distinguished character actor Maury Chaykin is Nero Wolfe. Other members of the cast (in credits order) include Kari Matchett (Janet Stahl), Nicky Guadagni (Tina Vardas), Hrant Alianak (Carl Vardas), Bill Smitrovich (Inspector Cramer), James Tolkan (Ed Graboff), Colin Fox (Fritz Brenner), R.D. Reid (Sergeant Purley Stebbins), Boyd Banks (Jimmie Kirk), Ken Kramer (Joel Fickler), Robbie Rox (Philip), Angelo Tsarouchas (Flatfoot Cop) and Doug Lennox (Detective Jacob Wallen).
A Nero Wolfe Mystery is available on DVD from A&E Home Video. ISBN 076708893X
[edit] Nero Wolfe (CBC Radio)
"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] External links
- A Nero Wolfe Mystery — "Cop Killer" at the Internet Movie Database
- A Nero Wolfe Mystery — "Cop Killer" at The Wolfe Pack, official site of the Nero Wolfe Society
[edit] Release details
- 1997, USA, Books on Tape, Inc. ISBN 0736637486 July 21, 1997, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
- 1995, USA, Bantam Books ISBN 0553763075 January 2, 1995, paperback
- 1994, Canada, Durkin Hayes Publishing, DH Audio ISBN 0886467055 July 1994, audio cassette ("The Cop-Killer," unabridged, read by Saul Rubinek)
