Vintage Book "and be a villain" Rex Stout 1948 First Edition
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Vintage Book "and be a villain" Rex Stout 1948 First Edition. Stout is known for detective fiction, and his best-known characters are Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas between 1934 and 1975. Stout served in the U.S. Navy from 1906 to 1908. Vintage Book "and be a villain" Rex Stout 1948 1st Edition. Other than some browning/discoloration from age on the pages, the book is in excellent condition with no marks, tears, or other damage. Has nice thick sturdy pages. Author is Rex Stout. A Nero Wolfe Novel. Published by The Viking Press in New York. Copyright 1948 by Rex Stout. 8.25" tall and 5.75" wide. Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer born on December 1, 1886, in Noblesville, Indiana. Stout is known for detective fiction, and his best-known characters are Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas between 1934 and 1975. Stout served in the U.S. Navy from 1906 to 1908. He joined the Fight for Freedom organization and hosted 3 weekly radio shows. Stout was also a prominent public intellectual for decades. He was active in the early years of the American Civil Liberties Union and a founder of the Vanguard Press. He served as head of the Writer's War Board during World War II, became a radio celebrity through his numerous broadcasts, and was later active in promoting world federalism. Stout was the long-time president of the Authors Guild and sought to benefit authors by lobbying for improvement of authors' rights under the copyright laws. He also served a term as president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1958. In 1959, Stout received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Boucheron XXXI, the world's largest mystery convention, and he was nominated as Best Mystery Writer of the century. Stout attended the University of Kansas. After his service in the U.S. Navy, Stout worked a series of jobs, including a cigar-store clerk. In 1911, Stout sold 3 short poems to the literary magazine The Smart Set. Between 1912 and 1918, he published more than 40 works of fiction in various magazines such as Smith's Magazine, The Smart Set, Short Stories, Young's Magazine, Golfers Magazine, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, and All-Story Weekly. He wrote especially for pulp magazines. In 1929 Stout published his first book, "How Like a God". In the 1930s, Stout turned to writing detective fiction. In 1933, he wrote "Fer-de-Lance", which introduced Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. In 1934, Stout published a political thriller "The President Vanishes", which was originally published anonymously. In 1925, Stout was appointed to the board of the American Civil Liberties Union's powerful National Council on Censorship. He helped start the Marxist magazine The New Masses. On August 9, 1942, Stout conducted the first of 62 wartime broadcasts of "Our Secret Weapon" on CBS Radio. Stout appeared on the radio shows "Information Please", "Democratic Women's Day", "Speaking of Liberty", "Speaking of Books", "Invitation to Learning", "Behind the Mike", "The Voice of Freedom", "The People's Platform", "This is Our Enemy", "Author Meets the Critics", "Wake Up America", "A Report to the Nation", "Win the Peace", "United World Federalists", "The Eleanor Roosevelt Program", "Authors & Critics Gathering", and "Book & Author Luncheon". Stout appeared on or was a writer for the television shows "Critic at Large", "Nero Wolfe", "Crawford Mystery Theatre", "A Nero Wolfe Mysetery", "Omnibus", "Odyssey", "Studio One", "The Last Word", "The Dick Cavett Show", "Night Beat", "The Faye Emerson Show", "Think Fast", and "Book Beat". Movies credited to Stout include "Meet Nero Wolfe", "The Golden Spiders", "The League of Frightened Men", "The President Vanishes", "Information Please", "Lady Against the Odds" Some of the many books by Stout include "The League of Frightened Men", "The Rubber Band", "The Red Box", "Too Many Cooks", "Some Buried Caesar", "Over My Dead Body", "The Doorbell Rang", "In the Best Families", "And Be a Villain", "Too Many Women", "The Golden Spiders", "Champagne for One", "The Black Mountain", "The Silent Speaker", "If Death Ever Slept", "The Second Confession", "Gambit", "Might as Well Be Dead", "Plot it Yourself", "Prisoner's Base", "A Family Affair", "The Nero Wolfe Cookbook", "Death of a Doxy", "Murder by the Book", "Where There's A Will", "Black Orchids", "A Right to Die", "Door to Death", "Death of a Dude", "Before Midnight", "Please Pass the Guilt", "The Father Hunt", "The Final Deduction", "The Mother Hunt", "The Rodeo Murder", "And Four to Go", "Red Threads", "Bullet for One", "The Hand in the Glove", "Three at Wolfe's Door", "Not Quite Dead Enough", "Die Like a Dog", "Trouble in Triplicate", "Three Doors to Death", "Three for the Chair", "Counterfeit for Murder", "Death Times Three", "Cordially Invited to Murder", "Three Men Out", "Disguise for Murder" "The Broken Vase", "Her Forbidden Knight", "A Prize for Princes", "Golden Remedy", "Forest Fire", "O Careless Love!", "Mr. Cinderella", and many others. Rex Stout died on October 27, 1975, in Danbury, Connecticut.
