Rex Stout

Works

  1. Fer-de-lance (1934)
  2. The League of Frightened Men (1935) ***
  3. The Rubber Band (1936; also published as To Kill Again)
  4. The Red Box (1937) ***
  5. The Hand in the Glove (1937; published in the UK as Crime on Her Hands)
  6. Too Many Cooks (1938) ****
  7. Some Buried Caesar (1939; also published as The Red Bull)
  8. Mountain Cat (1939; also published as The Mountain Cat Murders)
  9. Double for Death (1939)
  10. Red Threads (1939) **
  11. Over My Dead Body (1939)
  12. Where There’s a Will (1940)
  13. Bad for Business (1940)
  14. The Broken Vase (1941)
  15. Alphabet Hicks (1941; also published as The Sound of Murder)
  16. Black Orchids (1942; 2 novellas)
  17. Not Quite Dead Enough (1944; 2 novellas)
  18. The Silent Speaker (1946) *
  19. Too Many Women (1947)
  20. And Be a Villain (1948; published in the UK as More Deaths than One)
  21. Trouble in Triplicate (1949; 3 novellas)
  22. The Second Confession (1949)
  23. Three Doors to Death (1950; 3 novellas)
  24. In the Best Families (1950; published in the UK as Even in the Best Families)
  25. Curtains for Three (1951; 3 novellas)
  26. Murder by the Book (1951) ***
  27. Triple Jeopardy (1952; 3 novellas)
  28. Prisoner’s Base (1952; published in the UK as Out Goes She) **
  29. The Golden Spiders (1953)
  30. Three Men Out (1954; 3 novellas)
  31. The Black Mountain (1954)
  32. Before Midnight (1955)
  33. Three Witnesses (1956; 3 novellas)
  34. Might As Well Be Dead (1956) **
  35. Three for the Chair (1957; 3 novellas)
  36. If Death Ever Slept (1957) ***
  37. And Four to Go (1958; 4 novellas; published in the UK as Crime and Again)
  38. Champagne for One (1958) ***
  39. Plot It Yourself (1959; published in the UK as Murder in Style)
  40. Three at Wolfe’s Door (1960; 3 novellas)
  41. Too Many Clients (1960) **
  42. The Final Deduction (1961)
  43. Homicide Trinity (1962; 3 novellas)
  44. Gambit (1962) **
  45. The Mother Hunt (1963)
  46. Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964; 3 novellas)
  47. A Right to Die (1964)
  48. The Doorbell Rang (1965)
  49. Death of a Doxy (1966)
  50. The Father Hunt (1968)
  51. Death of a Dude (1969)
  52. Please Pass the Guilt (1973)
  53. A Family Affair (1975)
  54. Justice Ends at Home (1977; short stories)
  55. Death Times Three (1985; 3 novellas)