Death Times Three

Death Times Three

Author	Rex Stout
Country	United states
Language	English
Series	Nero Wolfe
Genre	Detective fiction
Publisher	Bantam Books
Publication date	December 1985
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	213 pp. (first edition)
ISBN	0-553-25425-1
OCLC	12853382
Preceded by	A Family Affair

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.^[1]
"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.^[2]
"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.^[3]

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

↑ Townsend, Guy M., Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980, New York: Garland Publishing; ISBN 0-8240-9479-4), pp. 55–56. John McAleer, Judson Sapp and Arriean Schemer are associate editors of this definitive publication history.
↑ Townsend, Guy M., Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980, New York: Garland Publishing; ISBN 0-8240-9479-4), p. 73
↑ McAleer, John, ed., introduction to Death Times Three (The Rex Stout Library). New York: Bantam Books, December 1985, reissue edition January 1995, ISBN 0-553-76305-9

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Nero Wolfe

Creator

Rex Stout

Characters

Novels

Novellas and
short stories

"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)
"Fourth of July Picnic" (1957)
"Murder Is No Joke" (1958), expanded as "Frame-Up for Murder" (1958)
"Method Three for Murder" (1960)
"Poison à la Carte" (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)

Adaptations

Film	Meet Nero Wolfe (1936) The League of Frightened Men (1937)

Radio	The Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1943–44) The Amazing Nero Wolfe (1945) The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1950–51) Nero Wolfe (1982)

Television	Nero Wolfe (1977) Nero Wolfe (1981) The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000) A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–02)

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