''Death Times Three'' is a collection of

Nero Wolfe Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery (fiction), mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Principality of Montenegro, Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a ...

novellas by

Rex Stout Rex Todhunter Stout (; December 1, 1886–October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and ...

, published posthumously by

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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: * " Bitter End", first printed in the November 1940 issue of ''

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'', 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''. * "

Frame-Up for Murder "Frame-Up for Murder" is a Nero Wolfe Mystery fiction, mystery novella by Rex Stout, serialized in three issues of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' (June 21, June 28 and July 5, 1958). An expanded rewrite of the 1958 novella "Murder Is No Joke", "Fr ...

", an expanded rewrite of the 1958 novella "

Murder Is No Joke "Murder Is No Joke" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published in the 1958 short-story collection ''And Four to Go'' (Viking Press). Stout subsequently rewrote and expanded the story as "Frame-Up for Murder", serialized in thre ...

" that was serialized in three issues of ''

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'' (June 21, June 28 and July 5, 1958) but never published in book form. * " Assault on a Brownstone", an early draft of the 1961 novella " Counterfeit for Murder"; in this draft, Hattie Annis, who would become one of the most carefully drawn and favorite non-recurring Nero Wolfe characters in the revised, renamed published version, is the murder victim, while Tammy survives and has an implied romantic relationship with Archie.McAleer, John, ed., introduction to ''Death Times Three'' (The Rex Stout Library). New York:

, December 1985, reissue edition January 1995,

Publication history

*1985, New York:

December 1985, paperback *1995, New York: Bantam Books January 2, 1995, trade paperback *2000, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc. September 27, 2000, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard) *2010, New York: Bantam May 5, 2010,

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