Bitter End Illustration

Bitter End Illustration for The American Magazine - November 1940

“Bitter End” — Carl Mueller illustrated Rex Stout’s first Nero Wolfe novella for The American Magazine (November 1940)
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The Bitter End

These scans from The American Magazine come from James Rock’s site Gazette of the Arts . For loads of info and some super special Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe products and publications Gazette of the Arts is the place to go!

The Bitter End

The Bitter End cover page American Magazine November 1940

The Bitter End

Amy, Archie and Nero Wolfe discuss Tingley’s Tidbits in The Bitter End

Bad For Business – April 1968

A Tecumseh Fox mystery.

This is one Rex wrote or at least was published in 1940. He also used the same basic story line in a Nero Wolfe mystery named The Bitter End which was first published in the November 1940 issue of The American Magazine, later in a limited edition volume by the name of Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe, and then after he had died, in Death Times Three in 1985.

This cover is a second printing Pyramid edition printed in April of 1968.

Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe

Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe
Copyright 1978, 1979 By James A. Rock & Company
Michael Bourne Editor

I would like to take this space to say “Thank You” to the good folks at free-markets.com that gave me the above scan of Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe. This limited edition printing contained the first book publication of “Bitter End” and the article “Why Nero Wolfe Like Orchids” by Archie Goodwin as well as an extensive interview with Rex Stout.Take a look at their Nero Wolfe pages at

http://www.gazetteofthearts.com/wolfe1.htm.

They have an 18 x 12 limited edition print of the cover art for Corsage available for sale, and an audio tape offering “The Informal Interview with Rex Stout conducted in April of 1973” among many other interesting collectors items.

Death Times Three – September 1988

Death Times Three – A Bantam Book
Copyright 1985 By Barbara Stout and Rebecca Stout Bradbury
6th Bantam Printing – September 1988

Contents –
Bitter End: First appeared in the November 1940 issue of The American Magazine, and later in a limited edition volume entitled Corsage.
Framed-Up for Murder: First appeared in the June 21st, June 28th, and July 5th, 1958 editions of The Saturday Evening Post.
Assault on a Brownstone: First appeared in substantially different form as “The Counterfeiter’s Knife” in the January 14th, January 21st, January 28th issues of The Saturday Evening Post in 1961, and as “Counterfeit for Murder” in Homicide Trinity

Rear Cover Intro:
DEATH TIMES THREE
Now, with the aid of the Stout estate and Stout’s official biographer, John McAleer, Bantam Books is proud to publish this collection of three Nero Wolfe novellas. ASSAULT ON A BROWNSTONE, a novella featuring Wolfe in his most shocking confrontation with the law when his Thirty-fifth Street brownstone is invaded by Treasury officials. FRAME-UP FOR MURDER, concerning a famous fashion designer and a neatly stitched plot that weaves a deadly pattern of death. And BITTER END, a suspenseful story containing one of the nastiest incidents ever to occur at Wolfe’s dinner table.