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Rex Stout's "body of work"
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Prolific Author
Rex Stout's prolific output is not sometimes grasped because he is so often thought of as the author of the Nero Wolfe series, without due regard for his other two writing careers.
Here is the tally:

Years Publications Quantity
1910 – 1916 Pulp fiction novels and short story anthologies (many stories are lost because they were published in "pulp" magazines long ago and were never compiled into book form) 8
1929 – 1941 Non-Nero Wolfe novels 14
1934 – 1975 Novels (33) & Novellas (39 novellas)

Nero Wolfe books [novels and novella collections (2-3 novellas in one book, usually also printed in magazines)] = 48 		72
1910 – 1975   TOTAL 94
In addition,Mr. Stout also wrote prolifically on a variety of topics in diverse media, including magazines, radio, and fliers, during WWII, in support of the war effort, and for the post WWII World Government and the Universal Copyright Convention efforts.

Read Rex Stout's own typed list of the languages in which Nero Wolfe stories had been printed through 1972.
  • View all the options for the Corpus section, using the menu to the left [hold your mouse OVER the Corpus option].
  • View Cover Art -- go to the any of the listings (Chron, Alpha, Non-Nero, Goldsborough, Biographies) to locate a vast range of cover art, including non-US printings. as well as synopsis, reviews, illustrations from magazine printings, and related information.
  • Send book cover scans, if you have a book cover that you don't see in the cover art page for a book, to the webmaster. I will add the cover scans to the site as soon as time permits.
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  • The Abbreviations use Upper Case for Books, including Novella collections, lower case for Novellas.
  • Find other Wolfe-related material using the menu options for Miscellaneous Media (TV, radio, movies, overseas productions, comic books and comic strips, and even an LP Album cover) and A&E TV Series
  • Check out Wikipedia for additional information regarding the Corpus, including a separate page for each title in the corpus, full printing history of each title, etc.
  • Please do report errors! Unlike Mr. Stout, the webmaster reverts to a non-genius streak and re-reads, edits, rewrites, reviews, etc. We want to correct any errors.
Where to Buy the Books
The Wolfe Pack does not sell books directly, although we do receive a small percentage of any Amazon purchase you make using the links on this site (see the link to the left, below the menus).
  1. Use the Alphabetic or Chronological list of the Wolfe Books to make sure you don't miss any of the 48 books.
  2. Not all the books are still in print, so you can buy some new, but will need to buy some used. Bantam recently was reprinting the titles two-per-book. Five books containing 10 of the original 48 books have been published to date. They are also keeping many of the previous printing available for purchase new.
  3. Barnes & Noble and two independent mystery bookstores in Manhattan stock a minimum of 20 Wolfe titles, including all the newest reprints.  If possible, try to buy from local stores to keep them in  business.
  4. Used books can be in quite good condition -- or not.  They are usually reasonably priced. However, a recent attempt to locate a replacement copy of Too Many Women determined that because it has not been reprinted for many, many years (evil sexist plot device?), used copies of even the paperbacks are quite expensive.
  5. If you hold out for hardbound copies you will pay a good deal of money and have to accumulate them more slowly -- hardbound copies were only printed the first couple of years after the original publication date. Beware of Book Club editions: they are fine for reading but have a very low resale value and poorer quality paper than trade editions. Compared to original hardbound publications, they easily turn brown and eventually dry out altogether.
  6. If you use the link on our web site to Amazon (directly under the menus on the left side of every page), the Wolfe Pack receives a small percentage of the sale that helps pay for our web site hosting costs.
  7. Anthology printings are a great way to obtain between 3 and 7 stories in one volume. See the anthologies page fora listing of their contents.

OTHER sources of books:
Acknowledgments:
  • Winnifred Louis contributed her entire pioneering site "Merely a Genius" to this site and that included many of the reviews and quotations now on the updated corpus covers pages.
  • Peter Darrel compiled the magazine publication listing of the Nero Wolfe saga. 
  • Jesse Strater assembled the Alternate Titles.
  • Dan Augustine compiled a similar listing that we used to update these listings.
  • Those indefatigable Wolfeans at Wikipedia have compiled incredibly well-document research on all aspects of The Corpus.

Thanks Winnifred, Dan, Peter, Jesse, and to the dozens and dozens of cover art contributors. I'm sorry it took so long to organize all those JPGs.
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