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Fer-de-Lance (novel)
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Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout is the first Nero Wolfe detective novel, published in 1934 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. The novel appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine under the title "Point of D
Stout FDL 1
Stout FDL 1
Illustrator Fred Ludekens created the first visual interpretation of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin for the abridged version of Fer-de-Lance that appea
Illustrator Fred Ludekens created the first visual interpretation of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin for the abridged version of Fer-de-Lance that appeared in The American Magazine (November 1934)
Legendary book designer George Salter produced hundreds of covers for the digest format paperbacks published by Lawrence E. Spivak's The American Merc
Legendary book designer George Salter produced hundreds of covers for the digest format paperbacks published by Lawrence E. Spivak's The American Mercury. One of the earliest is an abridged version of Fer-de-Lance titled Meet Nero Wolfe (A Mercury Book No. 37, undated, ca. March 1941), which utilizes the title of the 1936 Columbia Pictures adaptation of the novel.
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Wolfe Fer de Lance ad
Rex Stout
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Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and
Fer-de-Lance (novel)
…Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout is the first Nero Wolfe detective novel, published in 1934 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. The novel appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine…
Rex Stout on Our Secret Weapon (December 1942)
Rex Stout on Our Secret Weapon (December 1942)
A frequent guest panelist on the NBC radio series Information Please, Stout was featured in the first of 18 RKO-Pathé short film versions that screene
A frequent guest panelist on the NBC radio series Information Please, Stout was featured in the first of 18 RKO-Pathé short film versions that screened in American theaters. Sitting on the steps of the Radio City Music Hall lobby after the September 1939 premiere are (from left) Pathé chief Frederic Ullman Jr., Stout, director Frank P. Donovan, John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams and Dan Golenpaul, creator of the radio program.
The Stout family at High Meadow, "The House That Nero Wolfe Built" (Look, February 13, 1940)
The Stout family at High Meadow, "The House That Nero Wolfe Built" (Look, February 13, 1940)
March 1945 political cartoon in the Chicago Tribune attacking "The Foreign Minded Playboy", Stout, president of the Friends of Democracy, and Leon Mil
March 1945 political cartoon in the Chicago Tribune attacking "The Foreign Minded Playboy", Stout, president of the Friends of Democracy, and Leon Milton Birkhead, founder and national director of the Friends of Democracy, as communists. Stout and Birkhead had earlier charged that the Tribune was pro-fascist.