Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda -- whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer who's still got poison in his heart.-
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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Prisoner's Base
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Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One
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Some Buried Caesar
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Three Witnesses
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The Second Confession
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And Be a Villain
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Three for the Chair
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A Right to Die
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Trouble in Triplicate
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Black Orchids
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Some Buried Caesar/The Golden Spiders
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Homicide Trinity
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Over My Dead Body
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Three Doors to Death
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The Doorbell Rang
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Black Orchids/The Silent Speaker
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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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The League of Frightened Men
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In the Best Families
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Where There's a Will
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Death of a Dude
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Please Pass the Guilt
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The Father Hunt
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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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Before Midnight
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If Death Ever Slept
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Might as Well Be Dead
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Death Times Three
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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 | 9780553278194 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553278193 |
| Title | Fer-de-Lance |
| Author | Rex Stout |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1997-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |