Cordially Invited to Meet Death: A Nero Wolfe Novella

Cordially Invited to Meet Death: A Nero Wolfe Novella

Rex Stout (1886-1975) was the sixth of nine children born of Quaker parents. He was educated in a country school and, later, attended briefly the University of Kansas before enlisting in the Navy where he served for two years. After he left the Navy in 1908, Rex Stout began writing freelance articles, but made his fortune devising and implementing a school banking system that was adopted in four hundred cities and towns throughout the country. In 1927 he retired from the world of finance and, with the proceeds, left for Paris to write serious fiction. Before turning to detective fiction, he wrote three novels that received favorable reviews, but it was writing detective fiction, and as creator of the Nero Wolfe character, that he become famous as a writer. The first Nero Wolfe novel, Fer-de-Lance, appeared In 1934. It was followed by many others, which established Nero Wolfe on a par with Erle Stanley Gardnerâ€™s famous Perry Mason.
"Cordially invited to Meet Murder," published originally in "The American Magazine" in 1942, is also known as "Invitation to Murder," but should not be confused with a novella by the same name that appeared in the same magazine in 1953.
This is a leasurly-paced story in the Christie tradition, featuring an American version of the English Manorhouse setting with an unusual household.
Country USA
Author Rex Stout
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 96
PublicationDate 2014-10-03
ReleaseDate 2014-10-03

Country	USA
Author	Rex Stout
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	96
PublicationDate	2014-10-03
ReleaseDate	2014-10-03

Cordially Invited to Meet Death: A Nero Wolfe Novella

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