Death Times Three

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Death Times Three
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Author Rex Stout
LanguageEnglish
Series Nero Wolfe
Genre Detective fiction
Publisher Bantam Books
Publication date
December 1985
Publication placeUnited states
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages213 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:

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Publication history

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References

  1. 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.
  2. Townsend, Guy M., Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980, New York: Garland Publishing; ISBN   0-8240-9479-4), p. 73
  3. 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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