The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout
There's no one and nothing the great detective Nero Wolfe wouldn't take on if the price was right. That's something wealthy society widow Rachel Bruner is counting on when she writes him a check for a whopping hundred grand. But even Wolfe has a moment's doubt when he finds out why the prize is so generous. For the oversize genius and his able assistant Archie Goodwin are about to lock horns with the FBI-and those highly trained G-men have a way with threats, tails, and bugs that could give even sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe a run for his money.Introduction by Stuart Kaminsky
"It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."-The New York Times Book Review
A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained-and puzzled-millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.
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Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men
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The Rubber Band/The Red Box 2-in-1
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Not Quite Dead Enough
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Fer-de-Lance
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Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One
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Three Witnesses
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Three for the Chair
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Prisoner's Base
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And Be a Villain
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Some Buried Caesar
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The Second Confession
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Homicide Trinity
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A Right to Die
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Some Buried Caesar/The Golden Spiders
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Trouble in Triplicate
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Black Orchids
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Three Doors to Death
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Black Orchids/The Silent Speaker
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Over My Dead Body
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And Four to Go
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Death of a Doxy
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The Mother Hunt
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Trio for Blunt Instruments
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The Golden Spiders
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Three at Wolfe's Door
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The Silent Speaker
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Curtains for Three
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In the Best Families
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The League of Frightened Men
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Where There's a Will
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The Final Deduction
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The Father Hunt
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Death of a Dude
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Please Pass the Guilt
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Champagne for One
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Murder by the Book
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Triple Jeopardy
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Too Many Cooks
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Death Times Three
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Before Midnight
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If Death Ever Slept
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Might as Well Be Dead
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The Rubber Band
Rex Stout (1886-1975) is one of the most beloved mystery novelists of all time, best known for creating the corpulent genius Nero Wolfe. Born in Indiana, Stout was a child arithmetic prodigy who spent his leisure time reading every book in his father's twelve-hundred-thousand-volume library. After two years in the navy--which he passed playing whist on Theodore Roosevelt's yacht--Stout began organizing children's field trips to banks, where he was paid a commission for every student who opened a savings account. He made a fortune, and in the late 1920s retired to write serious fiction.
After the Depression wiped out his savings, Stout began writing detective stories. Fer-de-Lance (1934) introduced Nero Wolfe, master of deduction, and his indefatigable assistant, Archie Goodwin. Over the next four decades, Stout published dozens of stories and novels starring the quirky pair, earning him a place in the mystery novelist's pantheon alongside Agatha Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner. He died in Connecticut in 1975.
After the Depression wiped out his savings, Stout began writing detective stories. Fer-de-Lance (1934) introduced Nero Wolfe, master of deduction, and his indefatigable assistant, Archie Goodwin. Over the next four decades, Stout published dozens of stories and novels starring the quirky pair, earning him a place in the mystery novelist's pantheon alongside Agatha Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner. He died in Connecticut in 1975.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780553237214 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553237217 |
| Title | The Doorbell Rang |
| Author | Rex Stout |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1992-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |