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Frame-Up for Murder

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"Frame-Up for Murder"
Short story by Rex Stout
Illustrated by Austin Briggs
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Detective fiction
Publication
Published inThe Saturday Evening Post
Publication typePeriodical
Publication dateJune–July 1958
SeriesNero Wolfe

"Frame-Up for Murder" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, serialized in three issues of The Saturday Evening Post (June 21, June 28 and July 5, 1958).

An expanded rewrite of the 1958 novella "Murder Is No Joke", "Frame-Up for Murder" did not appear in book form until the 1985 Bantam Books release, Death Times Three.

Publication History

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"Frame-Up for Murder"

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Death Times Three

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  • 1985, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-25425-1 December 1985, paperback
  • 1995, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-76305-9 January 2, 1995, trade paperback
  • 2000, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc. ISBN 0-7366-5638-3 September 27, 2000, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
  • 2010, New York: Bantam ISBN 978-0-307-75588-9 May 5, 2010, e-book

References

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  1. ^ Townsend, Guy M., Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1980, page 73. John McAleer, Judson Sapp and Arriean Schemer are associate editors of this definitive publication history. ISBN 0-8240-9479-4
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