''Triple Jeopardy'' is a collection of

Nero Wolfe Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in ...

mystery

novella A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian ''novella'' meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) fact ...

s 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 by the

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in 1952. Itself collected in the omnibus volume ''Kings Full of Aces'' (Viking 1969), the book comprises three stories that first appeared in ''

The American Magazine ''The American Magazine'' was a periodical publication founded in June 1906, a continuation of failed publications purchased a few years earlier from publishing mogul Miriam Leslie. It succeeded '' Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly'' (1876–1904) ...

'': * "

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" (January 1952, as "Nero Wolfe and the Communist Killer") * " The Cop-Killer" (February 1951, as "The Cop Killer") * "

The Squirt and the Monkey "The Squirt and the Monkey" is a Nero Wolfe Mystery fiction, mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published as "See No Evil" in the August 1951 issue of ''The American Magazine''. It first appeared in book form in the short-story collection ''Triple ...

" (August 1951, as "See No Evil")

Publication history

*1952, New York: The

, March 21, 1952, hardcover :In his limited-edition pamphlet, ''Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I'',

Otto Penzler Otto Penzler (born July 8, 1942) is a German-born American editor of mystery fiction, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. Biography Born in Germany to a German-American mother and a German father, Penzler moved to The B ...

describes the

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of ''Triple Jeopardy'': "Yellow cloth, front cover and spine printed with black; rear cover blank. Issued in a black, white, and purple dust wrapper." :In April 2006, ''Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine'' estimated that the first edition of ''Triple Jeopardy'' had a value of between $300 and $500. *1952, New York: The Viking Press (

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), July 1952, hardcover :The far less valuable Viking book club edition may be distinguished from the first edition in three ways: ::* The dust jacket has "Book Club Edition" printed on the inside front flap, and the price is absent (first editions may be price clipped if they were given as gifts). ::* Book club editions are sometimes thinner and always taller (usually a quarter of an inch) than first editions. ::* Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine).Penzler, Otto, ''Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I'', pp. 19–20 *1952, London:

Collins Crime Club Collins Crime Club was an imprint of British book publishers William Collins, Sons and ran from 6 May 1930 to April 1994. Throughout its 64 years the club issued a total of 2,012in "The Hooded Gunman -- An Illustrated History of Collins Crime ...

, October 13, 1952, hardcover *1957, New York: Bantam #A-1631, July 1957, paperback *1969, New York: The Viking Press, ''Kings Full of Aces: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus'' (with ''Too Many Cooks'' and ''

Plot It Yourself ''Plot It Yourself'' (British title ''Murder in Style'') is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1959, and also collected in the omnibus volume ''Kings Full of Aces'' (Viking 1969). Plot introduction A gro ...

''), January 28, 1969, hardcover *1971, New York: Bantam Books S5952, 1957 Edition; 6th printing, June 1971, paperback, .75¢ *1993, New York: Bantam Books (Rex Stout Library) , April 1993, introduction by

Aaron Elkins Aaron Elkins (born July 24, 1935 in Brooklyn) is an American mystery writer. He is best known for his series of novels featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver—the 'skeleton detective'. Biography Elkins's father was a machinist, hi ...

, paperback *1997, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc. July 21, 1997, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard) *2010, New York: Bantam April 28, 2010,

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{{Nero Wolfe 1952 short story collections Nero Wolfe short story collections Viking Press books