 Rex Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana. He started reading books at a very early age. He was also a mathematical prodigy. At the age of nineteen he was an accountant. At twenty-three he was running a hotel and at twenty-six he was a successful writer. In his thirties he ran a multi-million dollar banking business. At the age of forty-seven he created 'Nero Wolfe', a private investigator. After his death the Nero Wolfe series was continued by Robert Goldsborough. |
Titles and year of publication:
| 'Nero Wolfe' Novels | |
| 1) Fer-de-Lance | 1934 |
| 2) The League of Frightened Men | 1935 |
| 3) The Rubber Band (Also published as: To Kill Again [1960]) | 1936 |
| 4) The Red Box (Also published as: Case of the Red Box [1958]) | 1937 |
| 5) Too Many Cooks | 1938 |
| 6) Some Buried Caesar (Also published as: The Red Bull [1945]) | 1939 |
| 7) Over My Dead Body | 1940 |
| 8) Where There's a Will | 1940 |
| 9) Black Orchids (Also published as: The Case of the Black Orchids [1950]) (novelets) | 1942 |
| 10) Not Quite Dead Enough (novelets) | 1944 |
| 11) The Silent Speaker | 1946 |
| 12) Too Many Women | 1947 |
| 13) And Be a Villain (UK Title: More Deaths Than One [1949]) | 1948 |
| 14) Trouble in Triplicate (novelets) | 1949 |
| 15) The Second Confession | 1949 |
| 16) Three Doors to Death (novelets) | 1950 |
| 17) In the Best Families (UK Title: Even in the Best Families [1951]) | 1950 |
| 18) Curtains for Three (novelets) | 1950 |
| 19) Murder by the Book | 1951 |
| 20) Triple Jeopardy (novelets) | 1951 |
| 21) Prisoner's Base (UK Title: Out Goes She [1953]) | 1952 |
| 22) The Golden Spiders | 1953 |
| 23) Three Men Out (novelets) | 1954 |
| 24) The Black Mountain | 1954 |
| 25) Before Midnight | 1955 |
| 26) Three Witnesses (novelets) | 1956 |
| 27) Might as Well Be Dead | 1956 |
| 28) Three for the Chair (novelets) | 1957 |
| 29) If Death Ever Slept | 1957 |
| 30) And Four to Go (UK Title: Crime and Again [1959]) (novelets) | 1958 |
| 31) Champagne for One | 1958 |
| 32) Plot It Yourself (UK Title: Murder in Style [1960]) | 1959 |
| 33) Three at Wolfe's Door (novelets) | 1960 |
| 34) Too Many Clients | 1960 |
| 35) The Final Deduction | 1961 |
| 36) Gambit | 1962 |
| 37) Homicide Trinity (novelets) | 1962 |
| 38) The Mother Hunt | 1963 |
| 39) Trio for Blunt Instruments (novelets) | 1964 |
| 40) A Right to Die | 1964 |
| 41) The Doorbell Rang | 1965 |
| 42) Death of a Doxy | 1966 |
| 43) The Father Hunt | 1968 |
| 44) Death of a Dude | 1969 |
| 45) Please Pass the Guilt | 1973 |
| 46) A Family Affair | 1975 |
| 47) Death Times Three (novelets) | 1985 |
| Other Novels | |
| 1) How Like a God | 1929 |
| 2) Seed on the Wind | 1930 |
| 3) Golden Remedy | 1931 |
| 4) Forest Fire | 1933 |
| 5) The President Vanishes | 1934 |
| 6) O Careless Love! | 1935 |
| 7) The Hand in the Glove (UK Title: Crime on Her Hands [1939]) | 1937 |
| 8) Mr Cinderella | 1938 |
| 9) Mountain Cat (Also published as: The Mountain Cat Murders [1943]) | 1939 |
| 10) Double for Death | 1939 |
| 11) Red Threads | 1939 |
| 12) Bad for Business | 1940 |
| 13) The Broken Vase | 1941 |
| 14) Alphabet Hicks (Also published as: The Sound of Murder [1965]) | 1941 |
| 15) Justice Ends at Home and other stories (short stories) | 1977 |
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