Rex Stout

Gambit is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1962.

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" "Cordially Invited to Meet Death"

A Black marketeer brings Nero Wolfe a case of blackmail, a politician receives a death threat, and a man plots the downfall of his murderer

Curtains for Three is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1951 and itself collected in the omnibus volume Full House. The book comprises three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine: "The Gun with Wings" "Bullet for One" "Disguise for Murder"

The Black Mountain is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1954. The story was also collected in the omnibus volume Three Trumps. This book and the pre-war novel Over My Dead Body both involve international intrigue over Montenegro, but under very different circumstances, …