Black Orchids/The Silent Speaker
by Rex Stout
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0553386557
- ISBN 13
- 9780553386554
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About This Item
New York: Bantam, 2009. Trade paperback. Good. Daniel Pelavin. Front cover has light corner dings, back cover has a corner crease. Bantam trade paperback, 3rd printing, ISBN: 9780553386554, 192 + 271 pages, cover art by Daniel Pelavin. 8vo (5.25"" x 8.25"") Omnibus of two novels, originally published separately, with features retained from The Rex Stout Library editions: Black Orchids, with an introduction by Lawrence Block, and The Silent Speaker, with an introduction by Walter Mosley. At the back of the book are two items from ""The World of Rex Stout:"" correspondence between the author and his publisher; and the author's description of his characters and layout of the brownstone, and Wolfe's office. Black Orchids consists of two Nero Wolfe short novels, originally published separately in magazines: Black Orchids, and Cordially Invited to Meet Death. It is the 9th Nero Wolfe book, preceded by Where There's a Will; and followed by Not Quite Dead Enough. The Silent Speaker is the 11th Nero Wolfe book, preceded by Not Quite Dead Enough, and followed by Too Many Women. The Silent Speaker was adapted for the second season of the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery.
Synopsis
Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Stout's first short story collection, the volume is composed of two novellas that had appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine: "Black Orchids" (August 1941, abridged as "Death Wears an Orchid") "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" (April 1942, abridged as "Invitation to Murder")
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 081716089780553386554gt
- Title
- Black Orchids/The Silent Speaker
- Author
- Rex Stout
- Illustrator
- Daniel Pelavin
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553386557
- ISBN 13
- 9780553386554
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Nero Wolfe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
- Size
- 8vo
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