Justice ends at home, and other stories

by Rex Stout, John J. McAleer (Editor)

John McAleer, Editor, Viking, 1977, 267 pages. book; Gray boards with black cloth spine, silver and pink titles to spine only, plain endpapers. Dust jacket; black with white, green and pink text, photo of Stout on front and both author and editor on the back panel.

267 pages, Hardcover

First published August 25, 1977

About the author

Rex Todhunter Stout (1886–1975) was an American crime writer, 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.

Reviews

[Janine · Rating 3 out of 5]

These stories pre-date Nero Wolfe series. (bpl)

[Ellen Church · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin did not spring fully formed from the pen of a novice writer. Instead, many, many words and stories about other mysteries came first. These are a selection of those. Rescued from the long ago disappeared magazines that published Rex Stout, these stories are small gems that foreshadow the immortal detective duo. The stories are all very short, so lack the strong character development that we like to see today, however the twist is perfectly plotted in each story.