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John J. McAleer: The Making of Rex Stout's Biography Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine (Mark Fullmer) Stout's radicalism, the FBI, the books (from the Daily Bleed Calendar) a comprehensive overview of Rex Stout's work and biography Archived 2003-02-10 at the Wayback Machine; Forty years with Nero Wolfe (January 12, 2009) by Terry Teachout
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.
According to John J. McAleer, Rex Stout's official biographer, during his stint in the Navy, Stout came into contact with Alvey A. Adee, who was a major influence on Stout's creation of Nero Wolfe. Adee was a scholar, sleuth, gourmet, bachelor, a model of efficiency, a master of the English language, and is said to have inspired the ...
Fanciful biography. Reviewed in Time, March 21, 1969 [22] Bourne, Michael, Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe (1977, James A. Rock & Co, Publishers; Hardcover ISBN 0-918736-00-5 / Paperback ISBN 0-918736-01-3). Posthumous collection produced in a numbered limited edition of 276 hardcovers and 1,500 softcovers.
The Red Box is the fourth Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout.Prior to its first publication in 1937 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., the novel was serialized in five issues of The American Magazine (December 1936 – April 1937).
Rex Stout book cover images (65 F) N. Nero Wolfe (3 C, 25 P) W. Works by Rex Stout (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Rex Stout" The following 8 pages are in this category ...
1950, New York: The Viking Press, April 21, 1950, hardcover [1]: 81 ; Contents include "Man Alive", "Omit Flowers" and "Door to Death".In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of Three Doors to Death: "Green cloth, front cover and spine printed with black; rear cover blank.
In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of The League of Frightened Men: "Black cloth, gold lettering on front cover and spine; rear cover blank. Issued in a mainly black, white and gray pictorial dust wrapper …