The Second Confession – May 1995 – 5th Printing

The Second Confession - May 1995 - 5th Printing - Front Cover

The Second Confession - May 1995 - 5th Printing - Rear Cover

The Second Confession
A Bantam Crime Line Book / published by arrangement with Viking Penguin

Publishing History

Viking edition published September 1949
Dollar Mystery Guild edition / December 1949
Bantam edition / September 1952
New Bantam edition / May 1961
2nd new Bantam edition / January 1975
Bantam reissue edition / May 1995

Condensations appeared in the Montreal Standard, Newark Evening News, and Chicago Sun-Times 1950

Copyright 1949 by Rex Stout

Scans are from a 5th printing

Contents:

The Second Confession

Rear Cover Introduction:

The Second Confession

When a millionaire businessman hires Nero Wolfe to probe the background of his daughter’s boyfriend, it seems like just another case of an overprotective father. But when a powerful gangland boss “counsels” the detective to drop the matter, Wolfe realizes it’s much more than that.  Unwilling to take a hint, Wolfe receives a warning: a burst of machine-gun fire through the windows of his orchid room. Then the lawyer boyfriend turns up dead, leaving Archie the number one suspect. Throw in drugged drinks, two man-killing debutantes, and officials of a highly un-American party and Wolfe finds himself involved in a case where he must quickly solve one murder to prevent another: his own.

The Second Confession – 19??

This scan was donated by Leo Heller aka Michael Largey. Thanks Michael!

The Second Confession - 19?? - Front Cover

A Bantam Book
Copyright 1949 By Rex Stout

Publishing date unknown but, this cover appears to be from the 50’s

If anyone has any publishing information , a better scan, and/or rear/inside front cover introduction from this
edition please email me at depatty@gmail.com … TIA Dave

The Second Confession – 19??

The above scan was donated by Leo Heller aka Michael Largey. Thanks Michael!

The Second Confession - 19?? - Front Cover

A Bantam Book
Copyright 1949 By Rex Stout

Publishing date unknown but, this cover appears to be one of the 1990’s editions.

If anyone has any publishing information and/or rear/inside front cover introduction from this
edition please email me at depatty@gmail.com … TIA Dave

The Second Confession – May 1961 – Second Printing

The Second Confession - May 1961 - Second Printing - Front Cover

The Second Confession - May 1961 - Second Printing - Rear Cover

A Bantam Book
Copyright 1949 By Rex Stout
This edition is a 2nd Printing…May 1961

Rear Cover Intro:

To Archie Goodwin, he was just a voice over the telephone, a voice hard, slow, precise, cold as last week’s corpse. To Nero Wolfe, he was

THE ADVERSARY!

“You are to forget that you know his name,” Wolfe told Archie. “If I must commit myself against this man, I shall leave this house, find a place where I can work – and sleep and eat if there is time for it _ until I have destroyed him.”