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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
December 1985

ISBN
  
0-553-25425-1

Author
  
Rex Stout

Genre
  
Detective fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Series
  
Nero Wolfe

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
December 1985

Preceded by
  
A Family Affair

Publisher
  
Bantam Books


Pages
  
213 pp. (first edition)

Similar
  
Rex Stout books, Detective fiction books

Death Times Three is a collection of Nero Wolfe novellas by Rex Stout, published posthumously by Bantam Books in 1985. It is the only collection of Stout's Nero Wolfe stories not to have appeared first in hardcover. 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"; in this draft, Hattie Annis, who would become one of the most carefully drawn and favorite non-recurring Nero Wolfe characters in the revised, renamed published version, is the murder victim, while Tammy survives and has an implied romantic relationship with Archie.

    • Publication history

  • 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

    • References

    Death Times Three Wikipedia
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