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Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair).
The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.
Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, but shortly after that his Quaker parents, John Wallace Stout and Lucetta Elizabeth Todhunter Stout, moved their family (nine children in all) to Kansas.
His father was a teacher who encouraged his son to read, and Rex had read the entire Bible twice by the time he was four years old. He was the state spelling bee champion at age 13. Stout attended Topeka High School, Kansas, and the University of Kansas, Lawrence. His sister, Ruth Stout, also authored several books on no-work gardening and some social commentaries.
He served from 1906 to 1908 in the U.S. Navy (as a yeoman on President Teddy Roosevelt's official yacht) and then spent about the next four years working at about thirty different jobs (in six states), including cigar store clerk, while he sold poems, stories, and articles to various magazines.
It was not his writing but his invention of a school banking system in about 1916 that gave him enough money to travel in Europe extensively. About 400 U.S. schools adopted his system for keeping track of the money school children saved in accounts at school, and he was paid royalties.
In 1916, Stout married Fay Kennedy of Topeka, Kansas. They divorced in 1932 and Stout married in the same year Pola Weinbach Hoffmann, a designer who had studied with Josef Hoffmann in Vienna, Austria.
Rex Stout began his literary career in the 1910s writing for the pulps, publishing romance, adventure, and some borderline detective stories. His first stories appeared among others in All-Story Magazine. He sold articles and stories to a variety of magazines, and became a full-time writer in 1927. Stout lost the money he had made as a businessman in 1929.
In Paris in 1929 he wrote his first book, How Like a God, an unusual psychological story written in the second person. During the course of his early writing career Stout tackled a variety of literary forms, including the short story, the novel, and science fiction, among them a pioneering political thriller, The President Vanishes (1934).
After he returned to the U.S. Stout turned to writing detective fiction. The first work was Fer-de-Lance, which introduced Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. The novel was published by Farrar & Rinehart in October 1934, and in abridged form as "Point of Death" in The American Magazine (November 1934). In 1937, Stout created Dol Bonner, a female private detective who would reappear in his Nero Wolfe stories and who is an early and significant example of the woman PI as fictional protagonist, in a novel called The Hand in the Glove. After 1938 Stout focused solely on the mystery field. Stout continued writing the Nero Wolfe series for the rest of his life, publishing at least one adventure per year through 1966 (with the exception of 1943, when he was busy with activities related to World War II). Though Stout's rate of production declined somewhat after 1966, he still published four further Nero Wolfe novels and a cookbook prior to his death in 1975, aged 88.
During WWII Stout cut back on his detective writing, joined the Fight for Freedom organization, and wrote propaganda. He hosted three weekly radio shows, and coordinated the volunteer services of American writers to help the war effort. After the war Stout returned to writing Nero Wolfe novels, and took up the role of gentleman farmer on his estate at High Meadow in Brewster, north of New York City. He served as president of the Authors Guild and of the Mystery Writers of America, which in 1959 presented Stout with the Grand Master Award—the pinnacle of achievement in the mystery field.
Stout was a longtime friend of the British humorist P. G. Wodehouse, writer of the Jeeves novels and short stories. Each was a fan of the other's work, and there are evident parallels between their characters and techniques. Wodehouse contributed the foreword to Rex Stout: A Biography, John McAleer's Edgar Award-winning 1977 biography of the author (reissued in 2002 as Rex Stout: A Majesty's Life).
About author and audiobooks:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Stout |
Nero Wolfe Books
Rex Stout - Fer-de-Lance (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Ligue Of Frightened Men (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Rubber Band (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Red Box (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Too Many Cooks (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Some Buried Caesar (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Where There's A Will (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Black Orchids (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Not Quite Dead Enough (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Silent Speaker (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Too Many Women (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - And Be A Villian (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Trouble In Triplicate (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Second Confession (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Three Doors To Death (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - In The Best Families (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Curtains For Three (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Murder By The Book (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Triple Jeopardy (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Prisoner's Base (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Golden Spiders (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Three Man Out (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Black Mountain (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Before Midnight (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Three Witnesses (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Might As Well Be Dead (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Three For The Chair (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - If Death Ever Slept (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - And Four To Go (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Plot It Yourself (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Three At Wolfe's Door (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Too Many Clients (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Final Deduction (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Homicide Trinity (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Gambit (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Mother Hunt (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Trio For Blunt Instruments (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - A Right To Die (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Doorbell Rang (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Death Of A Doxy (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - The Father Hunt (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Death Of A Dude (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Please Pass The Guilt (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - A Family Affair (read by Michael Prichard)
Rex Stout - Death Times Three (read by Michael Prichard)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/e6ddd1b7b71657ad56d6af9636b32909/Fer_De_Lance.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4ac8b4bff2ee637c64d12bf4a0495762/The_Ligue_Of_Frightened_Men.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/86224f1c630b579f45d76325f0132dcb/The_Rubber_Band.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3dec607484dc4ddb03f14d9f460c6514/The_Red_Box.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1c427ae96d7a4d610c8face18d537a42/Too_Many_Cooks.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/69ed38771f4931ecc401c5167bdce2e6/Some_Buried_Caesar.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d85b8d568c8f32530ffb9cdd453eb9a0/Where_Theres_A_Will.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/834f3f75e0d4546f4aa5c4f0734f01c2/Black_Orchids.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cb7fb6cb2ab902cf023595bdfe7f5a4c/Not_Quite_Dead_Enough.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/936b42363b1d0a345e833c00c6bfb077/The_Silent_Speaker.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/25e032c201a009fa13e46617abf4afd7/Too_Many_Women.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/69355673b2a39b648f8f67885832cb2b/And_Be_A_Villian.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/43acd0cd0f90732c79aec813357e7dc4/Trouble_In_Triplicate.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c143c0d42c4e1efa1e32f567c77c3d71/The_Second_Confession.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3d6ea4eb0aea759aba6f8f186e63a5cf/Three_Doors_To_Death.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2aae9305e29960f187478d3abaabf23d/In_The_Best_Families.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9826d497092aab00029d07a78c5d9a92/Curtains_For_Three.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/57e9a96eeb7c55f78fffbc3a3684ffb9/Murder_By_The_Book.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3ea09277ca08ccb6d1a443f70f36c8e8/Triple_Jeopardy.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/919c7ea314b7a59141271aa912811ee1/Prisoners_Base.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/05610aec3a11e81bfa655ad601a40877/The_Golden_Spiders.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/01aafa2d02c7b003b3808608851788b9/Three_Man_Out.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fd21b807a4eb8f17c79aa36d5106b576/The_Black_Mountain.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8fb611502d991b5cc14e566ee542df70/Before_Midnight.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a60f7352245b748d2106869e96a83537/Three_Witnesses.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e50528cd12714e9d62d38b9f7f416773/Might_As_Well_Be_Dead.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b06b7a1e5c1cacea7d0f6f67feeb4773/Three_For_The_Chair.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/59df2be9d88a823336e24663d32bf8a0/If_Death_Ever_Slept.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/40bc74dd09857c16f10973e3ce510137/And_Four_To_Go.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b82b68e590ca52f8c0842a2014371ff0/Plot_It_Yourself.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/dd5d1015059be8827f5f31c9d4bf970e/Three_At_Wolfes_Door.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2a2f6f87379935dae7009722800a4acd/Too_Many_Clients.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/34334c098f558e262b947abc48f82f2c/The_Final_Deduction.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fc3425a5dc6b48e5a00f6f70984f0eeb/Homicide_Trinity.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6a529130344120d7cebc5c3518b96c72/Gambit.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6516f4ca9eae467893302a6393be2384/The_Mother_Hunt.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5c3b73ff73ecf8fa827b18a0b605a39f/Trio_For_Blunt_Instruments.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/611887df7300ad71dc2f09d2188fefcd/A_Right_To_Die.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5e2d1685371ea8be7f813a00b55b759b/The_Doorbell_Rang.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/61ad8bb63d109b43e749a9095d208ca0/Death_Of_A_Doxy.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b7f4327784d1b3fe5315d8acf9332cff/The_Father_Hunt.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c998004371220e39ed9e5f818b4cc152/Death_Of_A_Dude.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2d3aca316dcfd0b898ff63877a25f7b4/Please_Pass_The_Guilt.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8b4669dbb69c0d28ec1d35f5690fc244/A_Family_Affair.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1a867fb7447454c26e7bccbb1210b559/Death_Times_Three.rar.html |
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