Three Witnesses (book)

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Three Witnesses
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Author Rex Stout
Cover artistBill English
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Nero Wolfe
Genre Detective fiction
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date
March 10, 1956
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages185 pp. (first edition)
OCLC 1449762
Preceded by Before Midnight  
Followed by Might as Well Be Dead  

Three Witnesses is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1956 and itself collected in the omnibus volume Royal Flush (Viking 1965). The book contains three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine :

Contents

Each story in this collection features a witness, not to a murder but to its prologue.

Reviews and commentary

Publication history

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Bill English dust jacket design

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