Three Doors to Death

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Rex Stout: Three Doors to Death (Hardcover, 1950, Viking Press)

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Published June 11, 1950 by Viking Press.

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978-99975-2-495-9
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Wikipedia: Three Doors to Death is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1950 — itself collected in the omnibus volume Five of a Kind (Viking 1961). The book comprises three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine:

"Man Alive" (December 1947) "Omit Flowers" (November 1948) "Door to Death" (June 1949)

Amazon: "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 it’s the strange case of the murder victim’s family covering up for the real killer, while a chef stews in jail. Finally a master horticulturist discovers the woman he wants to marry: dead and cooling in a hothouse. Three …

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