Party affiliation: Liberal Party
Career
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How Like a God, 1929;
Seed on the Wind, 1930;
Golden Remedy, 1931;
Forest Fire, 1933;
Fer-de-Lance, 1934;
The President Vanishes, 1934;
The League of Frightened Men, 1935;
O Carless Love, 1935;
The Rubber Band, 1936;
The Red Box, 1936;
The Hand in the Glove, 1937;
Too Many Cooks, 1938;
Mr. Cinderella, 1938;
Some Buried Caesar, 1939;
Mountain Cat, 1939;
Over My Dead Body, 1939;
Red Threads, 1940;
Double for Death, 1940;
Bad for Business, 1940;
Where There’s a Will, 1941;
The Broken Vase, 1941;
Alphabet Hicks, 1942;
Black Orchids, 1942;
The Illustrious Dunderheads, 1942;
Not Quite Dead Enough, 1944;
The Silent Speaker, 1946;
Too Many Women, 1947;
Trouble in Triplicate, 1949;
The Second Confession, 1949;
Three Doors to Death, 1950;
In the Best Families, 1950;
Curtains for Three, 1951;
Murder by the Book, 1951;
Triple Jeopardy, 1952;
Prisoner’s Base, 1952;
The Golden Spiders, 1953;
Three Men Out, 1954;
The Black Mountain, 1954;
Before Midnight, 1955;
Three Witnesses, 1956;
Might as Well Be Dead, 1956;
Three for the Chair, 1957;
If Death Ever Slept, 1957;
And Four to Go, 1958;
Champagne for One, 1958;
Plot It Yourself, 1959;
Three at Wolfe’s Door, 1960;
Too Many Clients, 1960;
The Final Deduction, 1961;
Homicide Trinity, 1962;
Gambit, 1962;
The Mother Hunt, 1963;
Trio for Blunt Instruments, 1964;
A Right to Die, 1964;
The Doorbell Rang, 1965;
Death of a Doxy, 1966;
The Father Hunt, 1968;
Death of a Dude, 1969;
Nero Wolfe Cookbook, 1973;
Please Pass the Guilt, 1973;
A Family Affair, 1975.
Major achievements
- In his seminal 1941 work, Murder for Pleasure, crime fiction historian Howard Haycraft included Fer-de-Lance and The League of Frightened Men in his definitive list of the most influential works of mystery fiction.
Politics
Connections
- He was married twice: Fay Kennedy (1916–1932), Pola Weinbach Hoffmann (1932–1975) and had two children: Barbara Stout Selleck (1933–) and Rebecca Stout Bradbury (1937–).
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a friend: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
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