<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Doublespeak:
<B>I almost forgot. I recall somone on here talking about Nero Wolfe. I am interested in reading books about him, so I was wondering if someone could give me a list of his books in order (I always have to read them in order) and where I could get them. Thank ye.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Rex Stout rules! I'll see what I can do...<P>Books by year of publication (short stories listed under the title of the compilation--abbreviations for anthologies given in braces):<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>Fer de Lance (1934)
<LI>The League of Frightened Men (1935)
<LI>The Rubber Band (1936)
<LI>The Red Box (1937)
<LI>Too Many Cooks (1938)
<LI>Red Threads (1939) (Inspector Cramer solves a case, not sure if Nero is involved)
<LI>Some Buried Ceasar (1939)
<LI>Over My Dead Body (1939)
<LI>Where There's a Will (1940)
<LI>Black Orchids (1942) contains the stories "Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" {BO}
<LI>Not Quite Dead Enough (1944) contains "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap" {NQDE}
<LI>The Silent Speaker (1946)
<LI>Too Many Women (1947)
<LI>And Be A Villain (1948)
<LI>Trouble in Triplicate (1949) contains "Help Wanted, Male", "Instead of Evidence", "Before I Die" {TiT}
<LI>The Gun With Wings (1949)
<LI>Curtains for Three (1950) contains "Bullet for One", "The Gun With Wings", "Disguise For Murder" {Cf3}
<LI>Three Doors to Death (1950) contains "Man Alive", "Omit Flowers", "Door to Death" {3DtD}
<LI>In the Best Families (1950) (mostly Archie solo)
<LI>Murder By the Book (1951)
<LI>Triple Jeopardy (1952) contains "Home to Roost", "The Cop-Killer", "The Squirt and the Monkey" {TJ}
<LI>Prisoner's Base (1952)
<LI>The Golden Spiders (1953)
<LI>Three Men Out (1954) contains "Invitation to Murder", "This Won't Kill You", "The Zero Clue" {3MO}
<LI>The Black Mountain (1954)
<LI>Before Midnight (1955)
<LI>Three Witnesses (1956) contains "When A Man Murders", "The Next Witness", "Die Like a Dog" {3W}
<LI>Might As Well Be Dead (1956)
<LI>Three for the Chair (1957) contains "A Window for Death", "Immune to Murder", "Too Many Detectives" {3ftC}
<LI>If Death Ever Slept (1957)
<LI>And Four to Go (1958) contains "Fourth of July Picnic", "Easter Parade", "Christmas Party" {&4tG}
<LI>Champagne for One (1958)
<LI>Plot it Yourself (1959)
<LI>Three at Wolfe's Door (1960) contains "Poison a la Carte", "The Rodeo Murder", "Method Three for Murder" {3aWD}
<LI>Too Many Clients (1960)
<LI>The Final Deduction (1961)
<LI>Homicide Trinity (1962) contains "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo", "Death of a Demon", "Counterfeit for Murder" {HT}
<LI>Gambit (1962)
<LI>The Mother Hunt(1963)
<LI>Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964) contains "Kill Now--Pay Later", "Murder is Corny", "Blood Will Tell" {TfBI}
<LI>A Right To Die (1964)
<LI>The Doorbell Rang (1965)
<LI>Death of a Doxy (1966)
<LI>The Father Hunt (1968)</UL><P>Phew!<P>Incidentally, the stories were published somewhat out of order--his compilations in particular tend to overlap quite a bit. So, for completeness' sake, here's a list of the stories in the order in which they "occurred":<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>Fer de Lance
<LI>The League of Frightened Men
<LI>The Rubber Band
<LI>The Red Box
<LI>Too Many Cooks
<LI>Red Threads
<LI>Some Buried Ceasar
<LI>Over My Dead Body
<LI>Where There's a Will
<LI>Black Orchids (from BO)
<LI>Cordially Invited to Meet Your Death (from BO)
<LI>Not Quite Dead Enough (from NQDE)
<LI>Booby Trap (from NQDE)
<LI>Help Wanted, Male (from TiT)
<LI>Instead of Evidence (from TiT)
<LI>Bullet For One (from Cf3)
<LI>The Silent Speaker
<LI>Before I Die (from TiT)
<LI>Too Many Women
<LI>Man Alive (from 3DtD}
<LI>And Be a Villain
<LI>Omit Flowers (from 3DtD)
<LI>Door to Death (from 3DtD)
<LI>The Gun With Wings
<LI>The Gun With Wings (from Cf3)
<LI>In the Best Families
<LI>Disguise for Murder (from Cf3)
<LI>Murder by the Book
<LI>Home to Roost (from TJ)
<LI>The Cop-Killer (from TJ)
<LI>The Squirt and the Monkey (from TJ)
<LI>Prisoner's Base
<LI>Invitation to Murder (from 3MO)
<LI>This Won't Kill You (from 3MO)
<LI>The Golden Spiders
<LI>The Zero Clue (from 3MO)
<LI>The Black Mountain
<LI>When a Man Murders (from 3W)
<LI>The Next Witness (from 3W)
<LI>Die Like a Dog (from 3W)
<LI>Before Midnight
<LI>A Window for Death (from 3ftC)
<LI>Immune to Murder (from 3ftC)
<LI>Too Many Detectives (from 3ftC)
<LI>Might as Well Be Dead
<LI>Fourth of July Picnic (from &4tG)
<LI>Easter Parade (from &4tG)
<LI>If Death Ever Slept
<LI>Christmas Party (from &4tG)
<LI>Eeny Meeny Murder Mo (from HT)
<LI>Champagne for One
<LI>Poison a la Carte (from 3aWD)
<LI>Plot it Yourself
<LI>Death of a Demon (from HT)
<LI>Too Many Clients
<LI>The Rodeo Murder (from 3aWD)
<LI>Method Three for Murder (from 3aWD)
<LI>Kill Now--Pay Later (from TfBI)
<LI>Counterfeit for Murder (from HT)
<LI>The Final Deduction
<LI>Murder is Corny (from TfBI)
<LI>Gambit
<LI>The Mother Hunt
<LI>Blood Will Tell (from TfBI)
<LI>A Right to Die
<LI>The Doorbell Rang
<LI>Death of a Doxy
<LI>The Father Hunt</UL><P>And there you go.<P>If you're <I>really</I> interested, there's also "Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street" by William S. Baring-Gould, which is a biography of Nero Wolfe based on information about him found in the books. Those lists I gave are based on an appendix that organizes all of Wolfe's activities, including ones that are referred to but not themselves the subjects of stories (which I didn't list), by the date in which they "occurred").<P>Hope this helps! <IMG SRC="
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