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TRIPLE JEOPARDY: A NERO WOLFE THREESOME
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Tape stain to lower front free end paper, base of spine bumped, a very good to nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket rubs
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition. Tape stain to lower front free end paper, base of spine bumped, a very good to nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket rubs and mild wear to the edges and corner tips and a small chip at lower left corner of the front panel. (30891). Octavo, cloth. Collects three Nero Wolfe mystery stories. "Home to Roost," "The Cop-Killer," and "The Squirt and the Monkey." All first published in The American Magazine. Hubin, pp. 777-778. Townsend, Rex Stout: An Annotated and Secondary Bibliography, C6a.
Synopsis
Triple Jeopardy is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1952. Itself collected in the omnibus volume Kings Full of Aces (Viking 1969), the book comprises three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine: "Home to Roost" (January 1952, as "Nero Wolfe and the Communist Killer") "The Cop-Killer" (February 1951, as "The Cop Killer") "The Squirt and the Monkey" (August 1951, as "See No Evil")
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30891
- Title
- TRIPLE JEOPARDY: A NERO WOLFE THREESOME
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Book Condition
- Used - Tape stain to lower front free end paper, base of spine bumped, a very good to nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket rubs
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Mystery . SC
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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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