Death Times Three

Death Times Three is a collection of Nero Wolfe novellas by Rex Stout, published posthumously by Bantam Books in 1985. The book contains three stories, one never before published:

• "Bitter End," first printed in the November 1940 issue of The American Magazine, and collected in the limited-edition volume Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout (1977). The story is a re-working of Stout's Tecumseh Fox story Bad for Business.
• "Frame-Up for Murder," an expanded rewrite of the 1958 novella "Murder Is No Joke" that was serialized in three issues of The Saturday Evening Post (June 21, June 28 and July 5, 1958) but never published in book form.
• "Assault on a Brownstone," an early draft of the 1961 novella "Counterfeit for Murder".

Publication history

"Bitter End"

• 1940, The American Magazine, November 1940^[1]
• 1977, Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout, ed. by Michael Bourne, Bloomington, Indiana: James A. Rock, May 1977

"Frame-Up for Murder"

• 1958, The Saturday Evening Post, June 21 + June 28 + July 5, 1958^[2]

Death Times Three

• 1985, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-25425-1 December 1985, paperback
• 1995, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-76305-9 January 2, 1995, trade paperback
• 2000, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc. ISBN 0-7366-5638-3 September 27, 2000, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
• 2010, New York: Bantam ISBN 978-0-307-75588-9 May 5, 2010, e-book

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