Rex Stout bibliography

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This is a bibliography of works by or about the American writer Rex Stout.

Nero Wolfe corpus

Nero Wolfe books

Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe books (novels and collections of novellas and short stories) are listed in order of publication. For specific publication history, including original magazine appearances, see entries for individual titles. Years link to year-in-literature articles.

Year Title Publisher Publication date Notes
1934 Fer-de-Lance Farrar & Rinehart October 24, 1934 Abridged as "Point of Death" in The American Magazine (November 1934)[1]:7
1935 The League of Frightened Men Farrar & Rinehart August 14, 1935 Serialized as "The Frightened Men" in six issues of The Saturday Evening Post (June 15–July 20, 1935)[1]:9
1936 The Rubber Band Farrar & Rinehart April 9, 1936 Serialized in six issues of The Saturday Evening Post (February 29–April 4, 1936)[1]:10
1937 The Red Box Farrar & Rinehart April 15, 1937 Serialized in five issues of The American Magazine (December 1936 – April 1937)[1]:11–12
1938 Too Many Cooks Farrar & Rinehart August 17, 1938 Serialized in six issues of The American Magazine (March–August 1938)[1]:13
1939 Some Buried Caesar Farrar & Rinehart February 2, 1939 Abridged as "The Red Bull" in The American Magazine (December 1938)[1]:15
1940 Over My Dead Body Farrar & Rinehart January 3, 1940 Abridged in The American Magazine (September 1939)[1]:18
1940 Where There's a Will Farrar & Rinehart June 10, 1940 Abridged as "Sisters in Trouble" in The American Magazine (May 1940)[1]:20
1942 Black Orchids Farrar & Rinehart May 21, 1942 Contains the novellas "Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death"[1]:79
1944 Not Quite Dead Enough Farrar & Rinehart September 7, 1944 Contains the novellas "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap"[1]:80
1946 The Silent Speaker Viking Press October 21, 1946 [1]:23
1947 Too Many Women Viking Press October 20, 1947 [1]:24
1948 And Be a Villain Viking Press September 27, 1948 British title More Deaths Than One; first novel in the Zeck Trilogy[1]:25–26
1949 Trouble in Triplicate Viking Press February 11, 1949 Contains the short stories "Before I Die", "Help Wanted, Male" and "Instead of Evidence"[1]:80–81
1949 The Second Confession Viking Press September 6, 1949 Second novel in the Zeck Trilogy[1]:26–27
1950 Three Doors to Death Viking Press April 21, 1950 Contains the short stories "Man Alive", "Omit Flowers" and "Door to Death"[1]:81
1950 In the Best Families Viking Press September 29, 1950 British title Even in the Best Families; third novel in the Zeck Trilogy[1]:27–28
1951 Curtains for Three Viking Press February 23, 1951 Contains the short stories "The Gun with Wings", "Bullet for One" and "Disguise for Murder"[1]:82
1951 Murder by the Book Viking Press October 12, 1951 [1]:28
1952 Triple Jeopardy Viking Press February 23, 1951 Contains the short stories "Home to Roost", "The Cop-Killer" and "The Squirt and the Monkey"[1]:82
1952 Prisoner's Base Viking Press October 24, 1952 British title Out Goes She[1]:29
1953 The Golden Spiders Viking Press October 26, 1953 [1]:30
1954 Three Men Out Viking Press March 26, 1954 Contains the short stories "Invitation to Murder", "The Zero Clue" and "This Won't Kill You"[1]:83
1954 The Black Mountain Viking Press October 14, 1954 [1]:31
1955 Before Midnight Viking Press October 27, 1955 [1]:32
1956 Three Witnesses Viking Press March 10, 1956 Contains the short stories "The Next Witness", "When a Man Murders" and "Die Like a Dog"[1]:83–84
1956 Might as Well Be Dead Viking Press October 26, 1956 [1]:32–33
1957 Three for the Chair Viking Press May 3, 1957 Contains the short stories "A Window for Death", "Immune to Murder" and "Too Many Detectives"[1]:84
1957 If Death Ever Slept Viking Press October 25, 1957 [1]:33
1958 And Four to Go Viking Press February 14, 1958 British title Crime and Again[1]:85
1958 Champagne for One Viking Press November 24, 1958 [1]:34
1959 Plot It Yourself Viking Press October 30, 1959 British title Murder in Style[1]:35
1960 Three at Wolfe's Door Viking Press April 29, 1960 Contains the short stories "Poison à la Carte", "Method Three for Murder" and "The Rodeo Murder"[1]:85
1960 Too Many Clients Viking Press October 28, 1960[1]:36
1961 The Final Deduction Viking Press October 13, 1961 [1]:37
1962 Homicide Trinity Viking Press April 26, 1962 Contains the short stories "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo", "Death of a Demon" and "Counterfeit for Murder"[1]:86
1962 Gambit Viking Press October 12, 1962 [1]:38
1963 The Mother Hunt Viking Press July 18, 1963 [1]:38
1964 Trio for Blunt Instruments Viking Press April 24, 1964 Contains the short stories "Kill Now—Pay Later", "Murder Is Corny" and "Blood Will Tell"[1]:86
1964 A Right to Die Viking Press October 22, 1964 [1]:39
1965 The Doorbell Rang Viking Press October 8, 1965 [1]:40
1966 Death of a Doxy Viking Press August 19, 1966 [1]:41
1968 The Father Hunt Viking Press May 28, 1968 [1]:42
1969 Death of a Dude Viking Press August 20, 1969 [1]:43
1973 Please Pass the Guilt Viking Press September 1973 [1]:43
1975 A Family Affair Viking Press May 1975 [1]:44
1985 Death Times Three Bantam Books December 1985 Posthumous; contains the novella "Bitter End" and the short stories "Frame-Up for Murder" and "Assault on a Brownstone"

Other Nero Wolfe works

Year Title Publisher Publication date Notes
1963 "Why Nero Wolfe Likes Orchids" Life April 19, 1963 Concluding a feature story titled "The Orchid" that was photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Archie Goodwin "investigates and explains the deep satisfactions of his boss's orchid-fixation."[2]
1966 "The Case of the Spies Who Weren't" Ramparts January 1966 Archie Goodwin reports that the previous evening Nero Wolfe and "Rex Stout, my literary agent" filled 27 pages in his notebook with their discussion of Invitation to an Inquest by Walter and Miriam Schneir, a recently published book regarding the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg that they are reviewing for Ramparts magazine[1]:101
1973 The Nero Wolfe Cook Book Viking Press August 8, 1973 Edited by Rex Stout and the editors of the Viking Press[1]:118
Recipes and pertinent quotes from the corpus illustrated by vintage New York City photographs by John Muller, Andreas Feininger and others
Chapters include "Breakfast in the Old Brownstone", "Luncheon in the Dining Room", "Warm-Weather Dinners", "Cold-Weather Dinners", "Desserts", "The Perfect Dinner for the Perfect Detective", "The Relapse", "Snacks", "Guests, Male and Female", "Associates for Dinner", "Fritz Brenner", "Dishes Cooked by Others", "Rusterman's Restaurant", "Nero Wolfe Cooks", and "The Kanawha Spa Dinner"[3]

Other works

Novels

Year Title Publisher Publication date Notes
1913 Her Forbidden Knight All-Story Magazine August–December 1913 Crime story about counterfeiting with no continuing characters, set in New York City; serialized in five issues[1]:3[4][5]
1914 Under the Andes All-Story Magazine February 1914 A "scientific romance" and a "lost race" fantasy novel[1]:3[6]
1914 A Prize for Princes All-Story Weekly Magazine May 2–9, 1914 A novel of Balkan intrigue and murder about a very dangerous woman; also serialized in The Cavalier (May 2–9, 1914) and All-Story Cavalier Weekly (May 16–30, 1914)[1]:3–4[7][5]
1916 The Great Legend All-Story Weekly Magazine January 1–29, 1916 A historical novel set during the siege of Troy; serialized in five issues[1]:4[8]
1916 The Last Drive Golfers Magazine July–December 1916 Mystery with a murder method that foreshadows that used in Fer-de-Lance; serialized in six issues and reprinted in The 2012 Green Bag Almanac and Reader[9]
1929 How Like a God Vanguard Press 1929 [1]:4
1930 Seed on the Wind Vanguard Press August 21, 1930 [1]:5
1931 Golden Remedy Vanguard Press August 27, 1931 [1]:5
1933 Forest Fire Farrar & Rinehart April 13, 1933 [1]:6
1934 The President Vanishes Farrar & Rinehart September 17, 1934 [1]:7
1935 O Careless Love! Farrar & Rinehart November 4, 1935 Serialized in five issues of The Saturday Evening Post (September 21–October 19, 1935)[1]:10
1937 The Hand in the Glove Farrar & Rinehart September 16, 1937 Murder mystery featuring Dol Bonner[1]:7
1938 Mr. Cinderella Farrar & Rinehart December 1, 1938 Romance novel; Stout's last non-mystery fiction.[1]:15
1939 Mountain Cat Farrar & Rinehart July 27, 1939 Abridged as "Dark Vengeance" in The American Magazine (June 1939); republished as The Mountain Cat Murders[1]:16–17
1939 Double for Death Farrar & Rinehart October 3, 1939 First of three novels featuring detective Tecumseh Fox[1]:17–18
1939 Red Threads Farrar & Rinehart December 1, 1939 Featuring Inspector Cramer[1]:19
1940 Bad for Business Farrar & Rinehart November 28, 1940 Tecumseh Fox mystery first published in the 1940 anthology The Second Mystery Book; later rewritten as a Nero Wolfe novella, "Bitter End"[1]:21
1941 The Broken Vase Farrar & Rinehart January 23, 1941 Tecumseh Fox mystery[1]:21
1941 Alphabet Hicks Farrar & Rinehart December 8, 1941 Mystery republished as The Sound of Murder[1]:22

Short stories

Year Title Publisher Publication date Notes
1912 "Their Lady" 1912 Stout's authorized biographer John McAleer describes this as Stout's first published story[lower-alpha 1][10]:546
1912 "Excess Baggage" Short Stories October 1912 [1]:47[11]
1912 "The Infernal Feminine" Short Stories November 1912 [1]:47[11]
1912 "The Paisley" Young's Magazine November 1912 [12]
1912 "Billy Du Mont, Reporter" Young's Magazine December 1912 [12]
1912 "A Professional Recall" The Black Cat December 1912 [1]:47[13][11]
1913 "Barnacles" Young's Magazine January 1913 [12]
1913 "Pamfret and Peace" The Black Cat January 1913 [1]:48[13][11]
1913 "A Companion of Fortune" Short Stories April 1913 [1]:48[11]
1913 "A White Precipitate" Lippincott's Monthly Magazine June 1913 [1]:48[11]
1913 "The Pickled Picnic" The Black Cat June 1913 [1]:48
1913 "The Mother of Invention" The Black Cat August 1913 [1]:49[13][11]
1913 "Méthode Américaine" The Smart Set November 1913 [1]:49[13][11]
1914 "A Tyrant Abdicates" Lippincott's Monthly Magazine January 1914 [13][11][14]
1914 "The Pay-Yeoman" All-Story Magazine January 1914 [1]:49[13][15]
1914 "Secrets" All-Story Weekly Magazine March 7, 1914 Stout's first detective story[1]:50[13][15]
1914 "Rose Orchid" All-Story Weekly Magazine March 28, 1914 As by Evans Day[1]:50[13][15]
1914 "An Agacella Or" Lippincott's Monthly Magazine April 1914 [1]:50[13][11]
1914 "The Inevitable Third" All-Story Weekly Magazine April 25, 1914 As by Evans Day[1]:51[15]
1914 "Out of the Line" All-Story Cavalier Weekly June 13, 1914 [1]:51[5]
1914 "The Lie" All-Story Cavalier Weekly July 4, 1914 [1]:51[13][15]
1914 "Target Practise" [sic] All-Story Cavalier Weekly December 26, 1914 [1]:51[15]
1915 "If He Be Married" All-Story Cavalier Weekly January 16, 1915 [1]:52[15]
1915 "Baba" All-Story Cavalier Weekly January 30, 1915 [1]:52[15]
1915 "Warner & Wife" All-Story Cavalier Weekly February 27, 1915 [1]:52[13][15]
1915 "A Little Love Affair" Smith's Magazine July 1915 [1]:52[11]
1915 "Art for Art's Sake" Smith's Magazine August 1915 [1]:53[11]
1915 "Another Little Love Affair" Smith's Magazine September 1915 [1]:53[11]
1915 "Jonathan Stannard's Secret Vice" All-Story Weekly September 11, 1915 [1]:53[13][15]
1915 "Sanétomo" All-Story Weekly September 25, 1915 [1]:53[15]
1915 "The Strong Man" Young's Magazine November 1915 [12]
1915 "Justice Ends at Home" All-Story Weekly December 4, 1915 [1]:54[13][15]
1916 "Two Kisses" Breezy Stories January 1916 [12]
1916 "Ask the Egyptians" Golfers Magazine March 1916 [16]
1916 "This Is My Wife" Snappy Stories March 1916 [12]
1916 "Second Edition" Young's Magazine April 1916 [12]
1916 "It's Science That Counts" All-Story Weekly April 1, 1916 [1]:54[15]
1916 "The Rope Dance" All-Story Weekly June 24, 1916 [1]:54[13][15]
1917 "It Happened Last Night" The Black Cat January 1917 [12]
1917 "An Officer and a Lady" All-Story Weekly January 13, 1917 [1]:54[13][15][11]
1917 "Heels of Fate" All-Story Weekly November 17, 1917 [1]:55[13][15]
1918 "Old Fools and Young" Young's Magazine April 1918 [12]
1936 "A Good Character for a Novel" The New Masses December 15, 1936 [1]:55
1953 "Tough Cop's Gift" What's New:
Abbott Laboratories Christmas Annual		 1953 Also titled "Santa Claus Beat," "Cop's Gift" "Christmas Beat" and "Nobody Deserved Justice" in magazine and anthology reprintings[1]:66
1955 "His Own Hand" Manhunt April 1955 Featuring Alphabet Hicks, plus Nero Wolfe recurring character Sergeant Purley Stebbins; also titled "By His Own Hand" and "Curtain Line" in anthology reprintings[1]:69

Edited volumes

Year Title Publisher Publication date Notes
1942 The Illustrious Dunderheads Alfred A. Knopf September 21, 1942 A collection of isolationist, anti-WWII and pro-Nazi statements and votes by sitting Members of Congress[1]:117
1946 Rue Morgue No. 1 Creative Age Press 1946 Anthology of 19 stories chosen by Louis Greenfield[1]:117
1956 Eat, Drink and Be Buried Viking Press 1956 Mystery Writers of America anthology; British edition titled For Tomorrow We Die (1958) omitted three stories[1]:117–118

Poetry

Year Title Publisher Publication date Notes
1910 "In Cupid's Family" The Smart Set November 1910 [1]:119[17]
1911 "Cupid's Revenge" The Smart Set June 1911 [1]:119
1911 "The Victory of Love" The Smart Set October 1911 [1]:119[18]
1935 "On My Bashfulness (With No Apologies to Milton" Farrar & Rinehart 1935 Included in The Bedroom Companion, a humorous collection of risque stories, cartoons, essays, ditties, short plays and poems contributed by authors including Ogden Nash, Marc Connelly, Philip Wylie and Mark Hellinger[1]:119[19]
1935 "Apologia Pro Vita Sua" The New York Times August 21, 1935 Stout responds in verse after a review of The League of Frightened Men states "the fact that Rex Stout was a legitimate novelist before he took up the trade of mystery monger"[10]:261[20]

Books about Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe

Notes

  1. ↑ "'Their Lady' may have been published in 1912," wrote biographer John J. McAleer. "No copy of it has come to light. All-Story editors twice credited Rex with its authorship, once in notations accompanying 'Warner & Wife', 27 February 1915 and again, in notations accompanying 'Justice Ends at Home', 4 December 1915. … In addition, beginning on 16 May 1914, during All-Story's serialization of A Prize for Princes, Rex was thrice credited with having written 'Their To-Day.' 'Their To-Day' probably had read 'Their Lady' in a hasty script and had been misread by a compositor."[10]:546

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 1.45 1.46 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.54 1.55 1.56 1.57 1.58 1.59 1.60 1.61 1.62 1.63 1.64 1.65 1.66 1.67 1.68 1.69 1.70 1.71 1.72 1.73 1.74 1.75 1.76 1.77 1.78 1.79 1.80 1.81 1.82 1.83 1.84 1.85 1.86 1.87 1.88 1.89 1.90 1.91 1.92 1.93 1.94 1.95 1.96 1.97 1.98 1.99 1.100 1.101 1.102 1.103 1.104 1.105 1.106 Townsend, Guy M.; McAleer, John J.; Sapp, Judson C. et al., eds. (1980). Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-8240-9479-4.
  2. ↑ Stout, Rex (April 19, 1963). "Why Nero Wolfe Likes Orchids". Life 54 (16): 108. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
  3. ↑ Stout, Rex; Editors of the Viking Press, eds. (1973). The Nero Wolfe Cook Book. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-50599-4.
  4. ↑ Stout, Rex (1913). Her Forbidden Knight. New York: Severn House Publishers [1997]. ISBN 0727853694.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Stout, Rex (2007). The Rex Stout Reader. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 0-7867-1862-5.
  6. ↑ Stout, Rex (1914). Under the Andes. New York: Penzler Books [1985]. ISBN 9780892961191.
  7. ↑ Stout, Rex (1914). A Prize for Princes. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers [1994]. ISBN 0786701048.
  8. ↑ Stout, Rex (1916). The Great Legend. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers [1997]. ISBN 0786704438.
  9. ↑ Stout, Rex (1916). "The Last Drive". In Davies, Ross E.; Matetsky, Ira Brad. The 2012 Green Bag Almanac and Reader. Washington, D.C.: Green Bag Press (published 2011). pp. 255–312. ISBN 1933658134.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 McAleer, John J. (1977). Rex Stout: A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780316553407.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 Stout, Rex (2000). An Officer and a Lady and Other Stories. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 0-7867-0764-X.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 Contento, William G. "Stout, Rex (Todhunter)". The FictionMags Index. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 13.9 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 13.14 13.15 Stout, Rex (2007). McAleer, John J., ed. Justice Ends at Home and Other Stories. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 9780670411054.
  14. ↑ Stout, Rex T. (January 1914). "A Tyrant Abdicates". Lippincott's Monthly Magazine 93: 92–96. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 15.10 15.11 15.12 15.13 15.14 15.15 Stout, Rex (1998). Target Practice. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 9780786704965.
  16. ↑ Catalogue of Copyright Entries 13 (1). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress Copyright Office. 1916. p. 351. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
  17. ↑ Stout, Rex T. (November 1910). "In Cupid's Family". The Smart Set 32: 58. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  18. ↑ Stout, Rex T. (October 1911). "Victory of Love". The Smart Set 35: 49–50. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  19. ↑ Stout, Rex (1935). "On My Bashfulness". In Editors of Farrar & Rinehart. The Bedroom Companion. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. p. 36. OCLC 320267097.
  20. ↑ Stout, Rex (August 21, 1935). "Apologia Pro Vita Sua". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-03-21. (subscription required (help)).
  21. ↑ "The American Holmes"
  22. ↑ Bourne, Michael, "An Informal Interview with Rex Stout"; 1998, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers ISBN 0-918736-22-6