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The archival papers of Rex Stout anchor Boston College's collection of American detective fiction. [22] The Rex Stout papers were donated to the Burns Library by the Stout family in 1980 and includes manuscripts, correspondence, legal papers, personal papers, publishing contracts, photographs, and ephemera. [23]
Writer Rex Stout with biographer John J. McAleer in the 1970s. This is a bibliography of fiction by and works about Rex Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975), an American writer noted for his detective fiction.
A Family Affair is a Nero Wolfe detective novel published by the Viking Press in 1975. It is the last Nero Wolfe book written by Rex Stout who died less than six months after the publication of the book.
Three Men Out is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1954. The book comprises three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine: "Invitation to Murder" (August 1953, as "Will to Murder") "The Zero Clue" (December 1953, as "Scared to Death")
Ruth Imogen Stout [1]: 2 was born June 14, 1884, [2] in Girard, Kansas, [3] the fifth child of Quaker parents John Wallace Stout and Lucetta Elizabeth Todhunter Stout. [ 1 ] : 2, 35 Her younger brother Rex Stout , also an author, was famous for the Nero Wolfe detective stories.
Stout's biographer states that Stout hit on the idea of the FBI while reading Cook's exposé; Stout sent Cook an autographed copy of The Doorbell Rang, thanking him for "priming my pump". [3] [4] Stout had not before used a Wolfe book to air his own political views so extensively, and did not do so again until 1975's A Family Affair.
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]
In the Best Families (British title Even in the Best Families) is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1950. The story was collected in the omnibus volumes Five of a Kind (Viking 1961) and Triple Zeck (Viking 1974).