THE BLACK ORCHIDS: A NERO WOLFE DOUBLE MYSTERY
by Stout, Rex
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips. (23381)
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About This Item
New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1942]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips. (23381). Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-271 [272-280: blank], original brownish-red cloth front and spine stamped in black, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. The ninth Nero Wolfe mystery. Collects two stories, "Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death." Both stories first published in the American Magazine. "Nero Wolfe and his ebullient amanuensis Archie Goodwin are here at top form in two "novellas" ... The first concerns a cleverly contrived murder at New York's annual Flower Show. The second features an adroit bit of poisoning in the fantastic Riverdale ménage - and menagerie - of a successful party-arranger for Manhattan society. First-class entertainment." - Time magazine review, 1 June, 1942. Hubin, pp. 777-778. Townsend, Rex Stout: An Annotated and Secondary Bibliography, C1a.
Synopsis
Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Stout's first short story collection, the volume is composed of two novellas that had appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine: "Black Orchids" (August 1941, abridged as "Death Wears an Orchid") "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" (April 1942, abridged as "Invitation to Murder")
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23381
- Title
- THE BLACK ORCHIDS: A NERO WOLFE DOUBLE MYSTERY
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips. (23381)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York and Toronto
- Date Published
- [1942]
- Keywords
- Mystery
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