Frame-Up for Murder
Short story
"Frame-Up for Murder" | |
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Short story by Rex Stout | |
Illustrated by Austin Briggs | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Detective fiction |
Publication | |
Published in | The Saturday Evening Post |
Publication type | Periodical |
Publication date | June–July 1958 |
Series | Nero Wolfe |
"Frame-Up for Murder" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, serialized in three issues of The Saturday Evening Post (June 21, June 28 and July 5, 1958).
An expanded rewrite of the 1958 novella "Murder Is No Joke", "Frame-Up for Murder" did not appear in book form until the 1985 Bantam Books release, Death Times Three.
Publication History
"Frame-Up for Murder"
- 1958, The Saturday Evening Post, June 21 + June 28 + July 5, 1958[1]
Death Times Three
- 1985, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-25425-1 December 1985, paperback
- 1995, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-76305-9 January 2, 1995, trade paperback
- 2000, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc. ISBN 0-7366-5638-3 September 27, 2000, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
- 2010, New York: Bantam ISBN 978-0-307-75588-9 May 5, 2010, e-book
References
- ^ Townsend, Guy M., Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1980, page 73. John McAleer, Judson Sapp and Arriean Schemer are associate editors of this definitive publication history. ISBN 0-8240-9479-4
External links
Quotations related to Death Times Three at Wikiquote
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- "Method Three for Murder" (1960)
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- "The Rodeo Murder" (1960)
- "Counterfeit for Murder" (1961)
- "Death of a Demon" (1961)
- "Kill Now—Pay Later" (1961)
- "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo" (1962)
- "Blood Will Tell" (1963)
- "Murder Is Corny" (1964)
- "Assault on a Brownstone" (1985, posthumously published early draft of "Counterfeit for Murder")
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Robert Goldsborough
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- Death on Deadline (1987)
- Fade to Black (1990)
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