Career

• 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.

Personality

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–).
• father: John Wallace Stout - United States - teacher
• mother: Lucetta Elizabeth Todhunter Stout - United States
• Sister: Ruth Stout - United States - writer
• ex-wife: Fay Kennedy - United States
• Wife: Pola Weinbach Hoffmann - Austria - designer
• a daughter: Barbara Stout Selleck
• a daughter: Rebecca Stout Bradbury
• a friend: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
  writer of the Jeeves novels and short stories.