Books by Rex Stout

The Nero Wolfe Books and Stories

• 1934 Fer-de-Lance
• 1935 The League of Frightened Men
• 1936 The Rubber Band
• 1937 The Red Box
• 1938 Too Many Cooks
• 1939 Some Buried Caesar
• 1940 Over My Dead Body
• 1940 Where There’s a Will
• 1940 Bitter End (First published in Nov 1940 American Magazine, 1st Book Pub 1977 Corsage, 2nd Book Pub 1985 in Death Times Three)
• 1942 Black Orchids
  • Black Orchids
  • Cordially Invited to Meet Death
• 1944 Not Quite Dead Enough
  • Not Quite Dead Enough
  • Booby Trap
• 1946 The Silent Speaker
• 1947 Too Many Women
• 1948 And Be a Villain
• 1949 Trouble in Triplicate
  • Before I Die
  • Help Wanted, Male
  • Instead of Evidence
• 1949 The Second Confession
• 1950 Three Doors to Death
  • Man Alive
  • Omit Flowers
  • Door to Death
• 1950 In The Best Families
• 1950 Curtains for Three
  • The Gun with Wings
  • Bullet for One
  • Disguise for Murder
• 1951 Murder by The Book
• 1952 Prisoner’s Base
• 1952 Triple Jeopardy
  • Home to Roost
  • The Cop Killer
  • The Squirt and The Monkey
• 1953 The Golden Spiders
• 1954 Three Men Out
  • Invitation to Murder
  • The Zero Clue
  • This Won’t Kill You
• 1954 The Black Mountain
• 1955 Before Midnight
• 1956 Three Witnesses
  • The Next Witness
  • When a Man Murders
  • Die Like a Dog
• l956 Might as Well Be Dead
• 1957 Three for The Chair
  • A Window for Death
  • Immune to Murder
  • Too Many Detectives
• 1957 If Death Ever Slept
• 1958 Frame-Up for Murder (in Saturday Evening Post – 1st Book Pub 1985 in Death Times Three)
• 1958 And Four to Go
  • Christmas Party
  • Easter Parade
  • Fourth of July Picnic
  • Murder is No Joke
• 1958 Champagne for One
• 1959 Plot It Yourself
• 1960 Too Many Clients
• 1960 Three at Wolfe’s Door
  • Poison a La Carte
  • Method Three for Murder
  • The Rodeo Murder
• 1961 The Final Deduction
• 1961 Gambit
• 1962 Homicide Trinity
  • Eeny Meeny Murder Mo
  • Death of a Demon
  • Counterfeit for Murder (revised version of 1961 story The Counterfeiter’s Knife from the Saturday Evening Post)
• 1963 The Mother Hunt
• 1963 Why Nero Wolfe Likes Orchids by Archie Goodwin (Life Magazine, 1st Book Pub 1977 Corsage)
• 1964 Trio for Blunt Instruments
  • Kill Now-Pay Later
  • Murder Is Corny
  • Blood Will Tell
• 1964 A Right to Die
• 1965 The Doorbell Rang
• 1966 Death of a Doxy
• 1968 The Father Hunt
• 1969 Death of a Dude
• 1973 Please Pass The Guilt
• 1975 A Family Affair
• 1977 Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe
  • Bitter End (1st book Pub)
  • Why Nero Wolfe Likes Orchids (1st Book Pub)
  • An Informal Interview w/Rex Stout conducted April 1973 (1st Pub)
• 1985 Death Times Three
  • Bitter End (reprint, 1st book appearance in 1977 in Corsage)
  • Frame-Up for Murder(1st Book Pub)
  • Assault on a Brownstone (reprint, first book appearance 1962 as Counterfeit for Murder in Homicide Trinity)

Other Mystery Novels

• 1934 The President Vanishes
• 1937 The Hand in The Glove (Dol Bonner)
• 1939 Red Threads (Inspector Cramer)
• 1939 The Mountain Cat
• 1939 Double for Death (Tecumseh Fox)
• 1940 Bad for Business (Tecumseh Fox)
• 1940 The Sound of Murder (Alphabet Hicks)
• 1941 The Broken Vase (Tecumseh Fox)