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NOT QUITE DEAD ENOUGH: A NERO WOLFE DOUBLE MYSTERY
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to spine ends and lower front corner tip, tiny closed tear to upper
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1944]. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to spine ends and lower front corner tip, tiny closed tear to upper right front corner, large chip to base of rear panel. (23382). Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-220, original brick red cloth front and spine stamped in black, fore edge and bottom edge rough cut. The tenth Nero Wolfe mystery. Collects two stories, "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap." Both first published in The American Magazine. Nero and Archie are involved in the war effort. "Neither is to be missed by anyone with an interest in the Wolfe-Goodwin saga." - Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), 4136. Hubin, pp. 777-778. Townsend, Rex Stout: An Annotated and Secondary Bibliography, C2a.
Synopsis
Not Quite Dead Enough is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1944 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. The volume contains two novellas that first appeared in The American Magazine: "Not Quite Dead Enough" (abridged, December 1942) "Booby Trap" (August 1944) These two stories have the distinction of being the only two stories where Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's live-in employee in all the other Nero Wolfe stories, wears the uniform of the United States Army.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23382
- Title
- NOT QUITE DEAD ENOUGH: A NERO WOLFE DOUBLE MYSTERY
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to spine ends and lower front corner tip, tiny closed tear to upper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York and Toronto
- Date Published
- [1944]
- Keywords
- Mystery
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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