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Rex Stout

Forfatterbiografi

Rex Stout (født december 1886, død 27. september 1975) var en amerikansk forfatter, især kendt for sine krimier og novellefortællinger. Han er i litteraturhistorien tæt knyttet til figuren Nero Wolfe, en ekscentrisk detektiv, der ofte arbejder sammen med den kvikke medhjælper Archie Goodwin. Stout publicerede bredt i pulp- og magasinverdenen, og da han for alvor slog igennem med Nero Wolfe-universet, blev han et markant navn inden for den klassiske amerikanske “genteel mystery”-tradition, hvor intriger, dialog og efterforskningens logik bærer historien. Ifølge Britannica var Stout aktiv i civilsamfund og intellektuelle kredse ud over sit forfatterskab. Hans karriere står derfor både som et eksempel på populærlitterær mesterskab og som en del af den amerikanske krimibogs udvikling i det 20. århundrede. Stout modtog anerkendelse i genrefeltet, blandt andet blev han i 1959 tildelt Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award. Blandt hans mest kendte værker og serier er Nero Wolfe-krimierne, herunder titler som “Fer-de-Lance” og “The Father Hunt” samt mange efterfølgende noveller og romaner.

Bøger af Rex Stout

The Silent Speaker
The Silent Speaker

Bog | Engelsk

When a powerful government official, scheduled to speak to a group of millionaires, turns up dead, it is an event worthy of the notice of the great Nero Wolfe. Balancing on the edge of financial ruin, the orchid-loving detective grudgingly accepts the cas

And Four to Go
And Four to Go

Bog | Engelsk

"It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."-- The New York Times Book Review Embark on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring with s

'The Golden Spiders'
'The Golden Spiders'

Bog | Engelsk

Nero Wolfe was almost as famous for his wealthy clients and extravagant fees as for his genius at detection. So why has he accepted a case for $4.30? And why have the last two people to hire him been ruthlessly murdered? Wolfe suspects the answers may lie

'Three Witnesses'
'Three Witnesses'

Bog | Engelsk

Three witnesses hold all the clues in three crimes of passion that have even Nero Wolfe guessing to the very end. Did the dead millionaire who suddenly came back to life--only to end up dead again--write his own death warrant years before? Will the black

'Three Doors to Death'
'Three Doors to Death'

Bog | Engelsk

One by one they knock on the door of the incomparable Nero Wolfe, each with a case more perplexing than the one before. First comes the niece of a man who committed suicide by jumping naked into a geyser, only to return just in time to be murdered. Then i

'For mange kokke'
'For mange kokke'

Lydbog | Dansk

Nero Wolfe vejrer ballade. Masser af ballade. Som æresgæst er han inviteret til den årlige kongres i mesterkokkenes sammenslutning. De fornemme madkunstnere med tyk streg under kunstnere er temperamentsfulde gemytter. Og mesterkokkenes interessante kong

'Over My Dead Body'
'Over My Dead Body'

Bog | Engelsk

When a Balkan beauty gets in trouble over some missing diamonds, whom else can she turn to but the world-famous Nero Wolfe? Especially since she claims to be Wolfe's long lost daughter The stakes are suddenly raised when a student at this woman's

'A Right to Die'
'A Right to Die'

Bog | Engelsk

When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears. Susan Brooke has everyth

'Prisoner's Base'
'Prisoner's Base'

Bog | Engelsk

When Priscilla Eads, heiress to cotton-towel millions, first pleads for Nero Wolfe's assistance, the portly detective decides to wash his hands of a case that has more than its share of dirty laundry. Just hours later Miss Eads and her maid are found

'Fer-De-Lance'
'Fer-De-Lance'

Bog | Engelsk

As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man.When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immi

'Seed On The Wind'
'Seed On The Wind'

Bog | Engelsk

One woman, four men, countless temptations on the streets of New York. This lost novel from legendary "Nero Wolfe" creator Rex Stout-unpublished for more than 90 years-presents a gripping psychological puzzle and a heroine you'll never forge

'How Like A God'
'How Like A God'

Bog | Engelsk

STAIRWAY TO HOMICIDE In the shadowy stairwell of a New York City brownstone, a man stealthily begins to climb. In the pocket of his coat, a loaded revolver. At the top of the stairs, a woman he intends to kill. But who...? This extraordinary novel by Rex

'Some Buried Caesar/The Golden Spiders'
'Some Buried Caesar/The Golden Spiders'

Bog | Engelsk

"Nero Wolfe towers over his rivals...he is an exceptional character creation." -- New Yorker A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction's gre

'The Rubber Band/The Red Box 2-In-1'
'The Rubber Band/The Red Box 2-In-1'

Bog | Engelsk

A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction's greatest detectives. Here, in Stout's third and fourth complete Wolfe mysteries, the arrogant, gourman

'Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One'
'Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One'

Bog | Engelsk

A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction's greatest detectives. In this pair of classic Nero Wolfe mysteries, Stout is at his unparalleled best as th

'The Rubber Band'
'The Rubber Band'

Bog | Engelsk

"Nero Wolfe towers over his rivals. . . . He is an exceptional character creation."--New Yorker What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his se

'Death of a Dude'
'Death of a Dude'

Bog | Engelsk

The mountain couldn't come to Wolfe, so the great detective came to the mountain--to Lame Horse, Montana, to be exact. Here a city slicker got a country girl pregnant and then took a bullet in the back. Wolfe's job was to get an innocent man exone

'Before Midnight'
'Before Midnight'

Bog | Engelsk

The scent of murder is in the air at the great Pour Amour perfume contest, and the incomparable Nero Wolfe is intent on sniffing out the killer. The foul deed is committed during the contest's final round. Only five riddles separate the contestants fr

'Where There's a Will'
'Where There's a Will'

Bog | Engelsk

Why did the late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne leave his sisters, April, May, and June, a peach, a pear, and an apple? Why did he will the bulk of his considerable estate to a woman who was most definitely not his wife? Now Nero Wolfe, able, astute, and

'Murder by the Book'
'Murder by the Book'

Bog | Engelsk

"It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."--The New York Times Book Review Introduction by David Handler It wasn't Leonard Dykes's writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished

'For mange kokke'
'For mange kokke'

Bog | Dansk

Nero Wolfe vejrer ballade. Masser af ballade. Som æresgæst er han inviteret til den årlige kongres i mesterkokkenes sammenslutning. De fornemme madkunstnere med tyk streg under kunstnere er temperamentsfulde gemytter. Og mesterkokkenes interessante kong