Three Men Out (Nero Wolfe) by Rex Stout 1954 Book Club Edition w/dust jacket

Description: Nero Wolfe #23. A Nero Wolfe threesome, this is a 1954 collection of three Nero Wolfe novellas, all of which first appeared in The American Magazine in 1952 and 1953. A red check mark on the free end paper, otherwise book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket has quite a bit of wear, especially at the folds and at the top and bottom of the spine with a couple of small tears, the spine of the dust jacket is badly faded. Oddly, it seems like the book club edition is harder to find than the first edition. SYNOPSIS: Mystery fans continue to marvel that Rex Stout's novelettes are packed with as much plot, characterization, wit, and suspense as his full-length novels. Once again Viking offers three of his latest shorter works in a big Nero Wolfe bargain volume. In two of these stories Nero - much to his dislike - stirs from his premises. In "Invitation to Murder" he comes rushing to a millionaire's home to save Archie and incidentally to determine if one of three handsome women is a murderer. In "This Won't Kill You" he actually goes to a World Series game and solves a murder in which fielding errors and base hits are among the clues. To make up for this unaccustomed dashing about, in "The Zero Clue" Nero not only stays strictly at home, but manages to get most of Manhattan's homicide team occupying his house while he tries to decipher the mysterious clue left by the dying mathematical wizard. This is one of three Wolfe stories using clueing related to relatively arcane mathematical trivia: "The Zero Clue" in Three Men Out, And Be a Villain, and Death of a Doxy.

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