Non-Nero Wolfe Books and Story Compilations
Rex Stout lead a long, productive and complex life with a wide variety of careers. This chart (and the cover art section) attempt to chronicle his sporadic, non-Nero Wolfe, fiction writing careers. In addition to fiction writing, of course, Mr. Stout spent a great deal of his time verbally championing a wide variety of political causes. But that's a different page!
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| Year |
Book Title |
Publication Information |
Other Information |
PULP FICTION CAREER – 1910 – 1916
(32 Short Stories, 4 Novels)
These older titles are in the public domain. Many of them are available for free download at
http://eserver.org/fiction/stout/
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1913
2000 |
Her Forbidden Knight |
All-Story Magazine. In five parts, August through December 1913;
Paperback, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000 |
Novel |
1914
2000 |
A Prize for Princes |
All-Story Weekly Magazine. In five parts, May 2 through May 30, 1914 (163 pages);
Paperback, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000 |
Novel |
| 2006 |
The Rex Stout Reader: Her Forbidden Knight and A Prize for Princes |
Paperback, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006; Introduction by Otto Penzler.
Includes
the short story, Out of the Line |
Anthology of 2 novels and one short story (Read the Review) |
1914
2000 |
Under The Andes
(Link to text of off-copyright book) |
All-Story Magazine, February 1914 (139 pages);
Paperback, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000 |
Novel
(full text available) |
1916
1997 |
The Great Legend |
All-Story Weekly. In five parts, January 1 through January 29, 1916 (147 pages)
Paperback, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1997 |
Novel |
| 1977 |
Justice Ends at Home |
Hardcover compilation of short stories edited and with an introduction by John McAleer, Viking Press, 1977 |
Short Story Compilation |
| 1998 |
Target Practice |
Paperback, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998. All 16 short stories published in All-Story Magazine |
Short Story Compilation |
| 2000 |
An Officer and a Lady and Other Stories |
Paperback, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000 |
Short Story Compilation |
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| 1914 |
Out of the Line |
All-Story Cavalier Weekly, June 13, 1914, pp 218-224 |
Short Story
incl: A Rex Stout Reader |
| 1912 |
Their Lady |
"Unlocated" according to John McAleer |
Short Story |
| 1912 |
Excess Baggage |
Short Stories, Oct. 1912, pp 26-32 |
Short Story
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories |
| 1912 |
The Infernal Feminine |
Short Stories, November 1912, pp 88-91 |
Short Story
incl:An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories |
| 1912 |
A Professional Recall |
The Black Cat, December 1912, pp 46-50 |
Short Story
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories |
| 1913 |
Pamfret and Peace |
The Black Cat, January, 1913, pp 49-56 |
Short Story
incl:An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories |
| 1913 |
A Companion of Fortune |
Short Stories, April 1913, pp 112-117 |
Short Story
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories |
| 1913 |
A White Precipitate |
Lippincott Monthly Magazine, June 1913, pp 730-734 |
Short Story
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories |
| 1913 |
The Pickled Peace |
The Black Cat, June 1913, pp 46-56 |
Short Story |
| 1913 |
The Mother of Invention |
The Black Cat, August, 1913, pp 27-33 |
Short Story
Full Text available
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories |
| 1913 |
Méthode Américaine |
The Smart Set, November 1913, pp 129-134 |
Short Story
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories |
| 1914 |
A Tyrant Abdicates |
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, January 1914, pp 92-96 |
Short Story
Full Text available
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories |
| 1914 |
The Pay Yeoman |
All-Story Magazine, January 1914, pp 196-192 |
Short Story
Full Text available
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1914 |
Secrets |
All-Story Weekly, March 7, 1914, pp 208-216 |
Short Story
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1914 |
Rose Orchid |
All-Story Weekly, March 29, 1914, pp 876-883 |
Short Story
Full Text available
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1914 |
An Agacella Or |
Lippincott Monthly Magazine, April 1914, pp. 465-473 |
Short Story
Full Text available
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories |
| 1914 |
The Inevitable Third |
All-Story Weekly, April 25, 1914, pp 886-292 |
Short Story
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1914 |
The Lie |
All Story Cavalier Weekly, July 4, 1914, pp 859-864 |
Short Story
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1914 |
Target Practice |
All Story Cavalier Weekly, December 26, 1941, pp 133-141 |
Short Story
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1915 |
If He Be Married |
All Story Cavalier Weekly, January 16, 1915, pp 762-768 |
Short Story
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1915 |
Baba |
All Story Cavalier Weekly, January 30, 1915, pp 351-356 |
Short Story
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1915 |
Warner and Wife |
All Story Cavalier Weekly, February 27, 1915, pp 222-242 |
Short Story
Full Text available
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1915 |
A Little Love Affair |
Smith's Magazine, July 1915, pp 615-626 |
Short Story
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories |
| 1915 |
Art for Art's Sake |
Smith's Magazine, August, 1915, pp. 757-764 |
Short Story
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories |
| 1915 |
Another Little Love Affair |
Smith's Magazine, September 1915, pp 1241-1252 |
Short Story
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories |
| 1915 |
Jonathan Stannard’s Secret Vice |
All-Story Weekly, September 11, 1915, pp 236-242 |
Short Story
Full Text available
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1915 |
Sanetomo |
All-Story Weekly, September 25, 1915, pp 717-723 |
Short Story
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1915 |
Justice Ends at Home |
All-Story Weekly, December 4, 1915, pp 260-293 |
Short Story
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1916 |
The Rope Dance |
All-Story Weekly, June 24, 1916, pp 561-570 |
Short Story
Full Text available
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1917 |
An Officer and a Lady |
All-Story Weekly, January 13, 1917, pp. 610-616 |
Short Story
Full Text available
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| 1917 |
Heels of Fate |
All-Story Weekly, November 17, 1917, pp. 688-695 |
Short Story
incl: Justice Ends at Home & Other Stories
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| ? |
Annuncio's Violin |
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Short Story
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories |
| ? |
It's Science That Counts |
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Short Story
incl: Target Practice compilation |
| ? |
The Strong Man |
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Short Story
incl: An Officer & A Lady & Other Stories |
The three short stories without publication year and original source are not included
in John McAlleer's bibliography.
The Tables of Contents of the three short story compilations are included on the page of cover scans. |
NON-MYSTERY NOVEL CAREER – 1929 – 1938
(5 Psychological Novels, 2 Romantic Novels) |
| 1929 |
How Like A God |
The Vanguard Press |
novel |
| 1930 |
Seed on the Wind |
The Vanguard Press |
novel |
| 1931 |
Golden Remedy |
The Vanguard Press |
novel |
| 1933 |
Forest Fire |
Farrar & Rinehart |
novel |
| 1934 |
The President Vanishes |
Farrar & Rinehart |
novel |
| 1935 |
O Careless Love! |
Farrar & Rinehart |
Romantic Novel |
| 1938 |
Mr. Cinderella |
Farrar & Rinehart |
Romantic Novel |
NON-WOLFE MYSTERY FICTION CAREER – 1937 – 1941
1 Adventure Novel, 6 Mystery Novels |
| 1937 |
The Hand in the Glove |
Farrar & Rinehart |
A Dol Bonner Mystery |
| 1939 |
Mountain Cat |
Farrar & Rinehart |
Adventure Novel |
| 1939 |
Double for Death |
Farrar & Rinehart |
A Tecumseh Fox Mystery |
| 1939 |
Red Threads |
Farrar & Rinehart |
Featuring Inspector Cramer |
| 1940 |
Bad for Business |
Farrar & Rinehart |
A Tecumseh Fox Mystery |
| 1941 |
Broken Vase |
Farrar & Rinehart |
A Tecumseh Fox Mystery |
| 1941 |
Alphabet Hicks
or
The Sound of Murder |
Farrar & Rinehart |
An Alphabet Hicks Mystery |
OTHER NON-WOLFE PUBLICATIONS – 1929 – 1975
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| 1942 |
The Illustriious Dunderheads |
Alfred A. Knopf |
Stout, Rex (editor) |
| An anthology of brief passages from pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist and anti-war speeches and writings of U.S. congressmen, as well as itemized voting records of those who tended to vote against the Roosevelt administration on military and defense matters. (Many of the supposedly imbecilic quotations, complaining about supplying military aid to Josef Stalin, do not seem so dunderheaded today, e.g. Karl Mundt: "The prospect of a Hitler victory over Russia is dreary enough. But how much brighter for us is the possibility of a Stalin victory?") |
| Jan., 1960 |
"The Case of the Spies Who Weren't" |
Ramparts Magazine (January, 1966) |
Stout, Rex (editor) |
From Wikipedia:
"The Case of the Spies Who Weren't," Ramparts Magazine (an American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 through 1975)
Archie Goodwin reports that the previous evening Nero Wolfe and "Rex Stout, my literary agent" filled 27 pages in his notebook with their discussion of Invitation to an Inquest by Walter and Miriam Schneir, a recently published book that they are reviewing for Ramparts Magazine. Since their review must be fewer than 3,000 words, Wolfe frowns and orders Archie to "Contract it. Cramp it."
I frowned back. "You cramp it. Or Stout. Let him earn his ten per cent. Dictate it."
Archie loses the argument and condenses their views on the book, which concerns the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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NERO WOLFE MYSTERY FICTION CAREER – 1934 – 1975
33 Novels and 42 Novellas
(Novellas published in magazines as well as 2+ per book)
See THE WOLFE CORPUS ALPHABETICALLY or CHRONOLOGICALLY |