TOO MANY WOMEN
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Foxing to front free end paper, darkening to paste downs, mild foxing to fore and bottom edges, a nearly fine copy in a nearly f
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First edition. Foxing to front free end paper, darkening to paste downs, mild foxing to fore and bottom edges, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. An attractive copy. (30918). Octavo, cloth. The twelfth Nero Wolfe mystery. "Archie is the center of a seraglio of designing creatures, who want to bribe or seduce him as he helps Nero discover who killed (the victim in a firm) that employs 500 women. Longer than the later tales, this one has a great many lively turns and a good surprise ending." - Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), 3094. Hubin, pp. 777-778. Townsend, Rex Stout: An Annotated and Secondary Bibliography, A28a.
Synopsis
Too Many Women is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published in 1947 by the Viking Press. The novel was also collected in the omnibus volume All Aces (Viking 1958).
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30918
- Title
- TOO MANY WOMEN
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Book Condition
- Used - Foxing to front free end paper, darkening to paste downs, mild foxing to fore and bottom edges, a nearly fine copy in a nearly f
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Mystery
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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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