Rex Stout, o criador do detetive Nero Wolfe, nasceu há 130 anos

Rex Stout, de seu nome completo Rex Todhunter Stout, (Noblesville, Indiana, 1 de dezembro de 1886 - Danbury, Connecticut, 27 de outubro de 1975) foi um escritor norte-americano, especialmente conhecido por ter criado a personagem do detective privado Nero Wolfe.

Algumas obras de Rex Stout, com o título original e a data de publicação:

• 1934: Fer-de-Lance
• 1935: The League of Frightened Men
• 1936: The Rubber Band
• 1937: The Red Box
• 1938: Too Many Cooks
• 1939: Some Buried Caesar
• 1940: Over My Dead Body
• 1940: Where There's a Will
• 1942: Black Orchids (contains "Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death")
• 1944: Not Quite Dead Enough (contains "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap")
• 1946: The Silent Speaker
• 1947: Too Many Women
• 1948: And Be a Villain (British title More Deaths Than One)
• 1949: Trouble in Triplicate (contains "Before I Die", "Help Wanted, Male" and "Instead of Evidence")
• 1949: The Second Confession
• 1950: Three Doors to Death (contains "Man Alive", "Omit Flowers" and "Door to Death")
• 1950: In the Best Families (British title Even in the Best Families)
• 1951: Curtains for Three (contains "The Gun with Wings", "Bullet for One" and "Disguise for Murder")
• 1951: Murder by the Book
• 1952: Triple Jeopardy (contains "Home to Roost", "The Cop-Killer" and "The Squirt and the Monkey")
• 1952: Prisoner's Base (British title Out Goes She)
• 1953: The Golden Spiders
• 1954: Three Men Out (contains "Invitation to Murder", "The Zero Clue" and "This Won't Kill You")
• 1954: The Black Mountain
• 1955: Before Midnight
• 1956: Three Witnesses (contains "The Next Witness", "When a Man Murders" and "Die Like a Dog")
• 1956: Might as Well Be Dead
• 1957: Three for the Chair (contains "A Window for Death", "Immune to Murder" and "Too Many Detectives")
• 1957: If Death Ever Slept
• 1958: And Four to Go (contains "Christmas Party", "Easter Parade", "Fourth of July Picnic" and "Murder Is No Joke")
• 1958: Champagne for One
• 1959: Plot It Yourself (British title Murder in Style)
• 1960: Three at Wolfe's Door (contains "Poison à la Carte", "Method Three for Murder" and "The Rodeo Murder")
• 1960: Too Many Clients
• 1961: The Final Deduction
• 1962: Homicide Trinity (contains "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo", "Death of a Demon" and "Counterfeit for Murder")
• 1962: Gambit
• 1963: The Mother Hunt
• 1964: Trio for Blunt Instruments (contains "Kill Now—Pay Later", "Murder Is Corny" and "Blood Will Tell")
• 1964: A Right to Die
• 1965: The Doorbell Rang
• 1966: Death of a Doxy
• 1968: The Father Hunt
• 1969: Death of a Dude
• 1973: Please Pass the Guilt
• 1975: A Family Affair
• 1985: Death Times Three (posthumous; contains "Bitter End", "Frame-Up for Murder" and "Assault on a Brownstone")

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