Nero Wolfe short story collections

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: Trouble in Triplicate, And Four to Go, Three Witnesses, Homicide Trinity, Three for the Chair, Black Orchids, Trio for Blunt Instruments, Not Quite Dead Enough, Curtains for Three, Three at Wolfe's Door, Triple Jeopardy, Three Doors to Death, Three Men Out, Death Times Three. Excerpt: Trouble in Triplicate is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1949, and itself collected in the omnibus volume All Aces (Viking 1958). The book contains three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine: Each of the stories involves a character who is posing as someone else. I gazed at my boss in bitter disgust. He had lost all sense of proportion. For the sake of making a wild grab for a rib roast, he had left his chair, walked clear to the front room, opened a window, and invited the most deadly specimen between the Battery and Yonkers into his house. Archie, baffled by Wolfe's priorities, in Before I Die, chapter 2 With illustrations by Stanley Ekman, "Before I Die"first appeared in The American Magazine in April 1947 The meat shortage of 1946 has put Wolfe in a temper. He is pacing back and forth in misery. He wants beef, or pork, or lamb, or veal. And he can't get any. A notorious gangster, Dazy Perrit, arrives at the brownstone to enlist Wolfe's help and, over Archie's protests, Wolfe invites him inside. Archie fears that Perrit will tell Wolfe something that Wolfe would prefer not to know. But Wolfe wants meat and thinks that Perrit's black market connections might enable him to get it, so he makes, as Archie puts it, " . . . a frantic snatch at a pork chop." Once inside, Perrit gives Archie a phone number and tells him to ask for Tom, who might have meat, and then tells Wolfe his problem. He has a daughter, but he has kept her existence and identity a secret to protect her from his enemies. One of them, Thumbs Meeker, has recently let Perrit know that his daughter's existence is no longer a secret. Meeker apparently doesn't know the daughter's identity or location, just that Perrit has a daughter somewhere. So Perrit has found a grifter named Angelina Murphy who's on the run from authorities in Utah, and has installed her as his daughter in his Fifth Avenue penthouse. This, Perrit thinks, will