The Mother Hunt by Rex Stout
When an abandoned baby is left on her doorstep, the young socialite widow knows only too well the identity of the father: her deceased philanderer of a husband. But who is the mother? The case seems like child's play to Nero Wolfe, until the first dead body. While the police nurse their grudges against him, and the widow nurses Archie, the genius sleuth and his sidekick look for the hand that rocked the cradle. But nothing can pacify the killer, who's found the formula for murder-and is determined to milk it for all it's worth.Introduction by Marilyn Wallace
"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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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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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 | 9780553247374 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553247379 |
| Title | The Mother Hunt |
| Author | Rex Stout |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1993-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |