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Rex Stout
Category: Mystery
Lifespan: (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975)
Interesting & Unique Facts: Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana to Quaker parents. His father was a teacher who encouraged his son to read, and Rex had read the entire Bible twice by the time he was four years old. He was the state spelling bee champion at age 13.
He served in the U.S. Navy from 1906 to 1908. He was a yeoman on President Teddy Roosevelt's official yacht. Stout then spent the next four years working at about thirty different jobs (in six states), including a cigar store clerk. All this while he sold poems, stories, and articles to various magazines.
He wrote his first novel in 1929 in Paris entitled How Like a God, an unusual psychological story written in the second person.
After he returned to the U.S., Stout turned to writing detective fiction. His first was Fer-de-Lance, which introduced Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. The novel was published by Farrar & Rinehart in October 1934. During WWII Stout cut back on his detective writing, joined the Fight for Freedom organization, and wrote propaganda.
Stout was a longtime friend of the British humorist P. G. Wodehouse, writer of the Jeeves novels and short stories. Each was a fan of the other's work, and there are evident parallels between their characters and techniques.
Author's work in order (with publication dates):
Nero Wolfe Novels
Nero Wolfe Novellas
Non-Nero Novels
Non-Nero Short Stories
Lifespan: (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975)
Interesting & Unique Facts: Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana to Quaker parents. His father was a teacher who encouraged his son to read, and Rex had read the entire Bible twice by the time he was four years old. He was the state spelling bee champion at age 13.
He served in the U.S. Navy from 1906 to 1908. He was a yeoman on President Teddy Roosevelt's official yacht. Stout then spent the next four years working at about thirty different jobs (in six states), including a cigar store clerk. All this while he sold poems, stories, and articles to various magazines.
He wrote his first novel in 1929 in Paris entitled How Like a God, an unusual psychological story written in the second person.
After he returned to the U.S., Stout turned to writing detective fiction. His first was Fer-de-Lance, which introduced Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. The novel was published by Farrar & Rinehart in October 1934. During WWII Stout cut back on his detective writing, joined the Fight for Freedom organization, and wrote propaganda.
Stout was a longtime friend of the British humorist P. G. Wodehouse, writer of the Jeeves novels and short stories. Each was a fan of the other's work, and there are evident parallels between their characters and techniques.
Author's work in order (with publication dates):
Nero Wolfe Novels
- Fer-de-Lance (1934)
- The League of Frightened Men (1935)
- The Rubber Band (1936)
- The Red Box (1937)
- Too Many Cooks (1938)
- Some Buried Caesar (1939)
- Over My Dead Body (1940)
- Where There's a Will (1940)
- Black Orchids (1942)
- Not Quite Dead Enough (1944)
- The Silent Speaker (1946)
- Too Many Women (1947)
- And Be a Villain (1948) [also published as: More Deaths Than One]
- Trouble in Triplicate (1949)
- The Second Confession (1949)
- Three Doors to Death (1950)
- In the Best Families (1950) [also published as: Even in the Best Families]
- Curtains for Three (1951)
- Murder by the Book (1951)
- Triple Jeopardy (1952)
- Prisoner's Base (1952) [also published as: Out She Goes]
- The Golden Spiders (1953)
- Three Men Out (1954)
- The Black Mountain (1954)
- Before Midnight (1955)
- Three Witnesses (1956)
- Might As Well Be Dead (1956)
- Three for the Chair (1957)
- If Death Ever Slept (1957)
- And Four to Go (1958)
- Champagne for One (1958)
- Plot it Yourself (1959) [also published as: Murder In Style]
- Three at Wolfe's Door (1960)
- Too Many Clients (1960)
- The Final Deduction (1961)
- Homicide Trinity (1962)
- Gambit (1962)
- The Mother Hunt (1963)
- Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964)
- A Right to Die (1964)
- The Doorbell Rang (1965)
- Death of a Doxy (1966)
- The Father Hunt (1968)
- Death of a Dude (1969)
- Please Pass the Guilt (1973)
- A Family Affair (1975)
- Death Times Three (1985) [posthumous]
Nero Wolfe Novellas
- Bitter End (1940)
- Black Orchids (1941)
- Cordially Invited to Meet Death (1942)
- Not Quite Dead Enough (1942)
- Booby Trap (1944)
- Help Wanted, Male (1945)
- Instead of Evidence (1946)
- Before I Die (1947)
- Man Alive (1947)
- Bullet for One (1948)
- Omit Flowers (1948)
- Door to Death (1949)
- The Gun with Wings (1949)
- Disguise for Murder (1950)
- The Cop-Killer (1951)
- The Squirt and the Monkey (1951)
- Home to Roost (1952)
- This Won't Kill You (1952)
- Invitation to Murder (1953)
- The Zero Clue (1953)
- When a Man Murders... (1954)
- Die Like a Dog (1954)
- The Next Witness (1955)
- Immune to Murder (1955)
- A Window for Death (1956)
- Too Many Detectives (1956)
- Christmas Party (1957)
- Easter Parade (1957)
- Forth of July Picnic (1957)
- Murder is No Joke (1958) [expanded as:"Framed-Up for Murder"]
- Method Three for Murder (1960)
- The Rodeo Murder (1960)
- Counterfeit for Murder (1961)
- Death of a Demon (1961)
- Kill Now - Pay Later (1961)
- Eeny Meeny Murder Mo (1962)
- Blood Will Tell (1963)
- Murder is Corny (1964)
- Assault on a Brownstone (1985) [posthumous]
Non-Nero Novels
- Her Forbidden Knight (1913)
- Under the Andes (1914)
- A Prize for Princes (1914)
- The Great Legend (1916)
- How Like a God (1929)
- Seed on the Wind (1930)
- Golden Remedy (1931)
- Forest Fire (1933)
- The President Vanishes (1934)
- O Careless Love! (1935)
- The Hand in the Glove (1937)
- Mr. Cinderella (1938)
- The Mountain Cat (1939) [republished as:The Mountain Cat Murders]
- Double for Death (1939)
- Red Threads (1939)
- Bad For Business (1940) [rewritten as: "Bitter End"]
- The Broken Vase (1941)
- Alphabet Hicks (1941) [republished as:The Sound of Murder]
Non-Nero Short Stories
- Excess Baggage (1912)
- The Infernal Feminine (1913)
- A Professional Recall (1912)
- Pamfret and Peace (1913)
- A Companion of Fortune (1913)
- A White Percipitate (1913)
- The Pickled Picnic (1913)
- The Mother of Invention (1913)
- Methode Americaine (1913)
- A Tyrant Abdicates (1914)
- The Pay-Yeoman (1914)
- Secrets (1914)
- Rose Orchid (1914)
- An Agacella Or (1914)
- The Inevitable Third (1914)
- Out of the Line (1914)
- The Lie (1914)
- Target Practice (1914)
- If He Be Married (1915)
- Baba (1915)
- Warner and Wife (1915)
- A Little Love Affair (1915)
- Art for Art's Sake (1915)
- Another Little Love Affair (1915)
- Jonathan Stannart's Secret Vice (1915)
- Santetomo (1915)
- Justice Ends at Home (1915)
- It's Science That Counts (1916)
- The Rope Dance (1916)
- An Officer and a Lady (1917)
- Heels of Fate (1917)
- It Happened Last Night (1936)
- A Good Character for a Novel (1936)
- Tough Cop's Gift (1953) [also published as: "Santa Claus Beat," "Cop's Gift," "Christmas Beat," and "Nobody Deserved Justice"]
- His Own Hand (1955) [also published as:"By His Own Hand" and "Curtain Line."]
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