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The Silent Speaker
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- near fine
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: The Crime Club by Collins Clear-Type Press, 1947. Undetermined. near fine. 1st Edition. 192pp. Small octavo, in publisher's orange boards with black lettering along the spine. Mild bumping to head and base of spine. Faint dust soiling to top of page edges. Illustrated dust jacket, by Pollack, slightly rubbed at the head and base of the spine. near fine The first full-length Nero Wolfe novel published after a wartime six-year hiatus, here in a lovely and collectible first U.K. Edition. 1947
Synopsis
The Silent Speaker is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1946. It was published just after World War II, and key plot elements reflect the lingering effects of the war: housing shortages and restrictions on consumer goods, including government regulation of prices. The Silent Speaker was Stout's first full-length Nero Wolfe novel since Where There's a Will in 1940.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140602
- Title
- The Silent Speaker
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Crime Club by Collins Clear-Type Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Ficiton|Mystery|Nero Wolfe|Rex Stout|Literature
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Aquila Books
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