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Rex Stout's Literary Timeline

This document lists the titles of short story collections and novels written by Rex Stout featuring his detective character Nero Wolfe published between 1939 and 1985. Many of the titles emphasize groups of three stories or murders such as "Three Doors to Death", "Triple Jeopardy", and "Three for the Chair". The document also shows that Stout often used the numerical structure of titles to suggest collections of related mysteries to be solved by Wolfe.

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Rex Stout's Literary Timeline

This document lists the titles of short story collections and novels written by Rex Stout featuring his detective character Nero Wolfe published between 1939 and 1985. Many of the titles emphasize groups of three stories or murders such as "Three Doors to Death", "Triple Jeopardy", and "Three for the Chair". The document also shows that Stout often used the numerical structure of titles to suggest collections of related mysteries to be solved by Wolfe.

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1939: Some Buried Caesar

1940: Over My Dead Body

1940: Where There's a Will

1942: Black Orchids (contains "Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet
Death")

1944: Not Quite Dead Enough (contains "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby
Trap")

1949: Trouble in Triplicate (contains "Before I Die", "Help Wanted, Male" and
"Instead of Evidence")

1949: The Second Confession

1950: Three Doors to Death (contains "Man Alive", "Omit Flowers" and "Door
to Death")

1950: In the Best Families (British title Even in the Best Families)

1951: Curtains for Three (contains "The Gun with Wings", "Bullet for One" and
"Disguise for Murder")

1951: Murder by the Book

1952: Triple Jeopardy (contains "Home to Roost", "The Cop-Killer" and "The
Squirt and the Monkey")

1952: Prisoner's Base (British title Out Goes She)

1954: Three Men Out (contains "Invitation to Murder", "The Zero Clue" and
"This Won't Kill You")

1954: The Black Mountain

1955: Before Midnight

1956: Three Witnesses (contains "The Next Witness", "When a Man Murders"
and "Die Like a Dog")

1956: Might as Well Be Dead

1957: Three for the Chair (contains "A Window for Death", "Immune to
Murder" and "Too Many Detectives")

1958: And Four to Go (contains "Christmas Party", "Easter Parade", "Fourth of


July Picnic" and "Murder Is No Joke")

1959: Plot It Yourself (British title Murder in Style)

1960: Three at Wolfe's Door (contains "Poison la Carte", "Method Three for
Murder" and "The Rodeo Murder")

1962: Homicide Trinity (contains "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo", "Death of a


Demon" and "Counterfeit for Murder")

1964: Trio for Blunt Instruments (contains "Kill NowPay Later", "Murder Is
Corny" and "Blood Will Tell")

1964: A Right to Die

1969: Death of a Dude

1973: Please Pass the Guilt

1975: A Family Affair

1985: Death Times Three (posthumous; contains "Bitter End", "Frame-Up for
Murder" and "Assault on a Brownstone")

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