Frame-Up for Murder

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"Frame-Up for Murder"
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Illustrated by Austin Briggs
Author Rex Stout
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Nero Wolfe
Genre(s) Detective fiction
Published in The Saturday Evening Post
Publication typePeriodical
Publication dateJune–July 1958

"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).

Contents

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"

Death Times Three

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References

  1. 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

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