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Cordially Invited to Meet Death
"Cordially Invited to Meet Death" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published in abridged form as "Invitation to Murder" in the April 1942 issue of "The American Magazine". It first appeared in book form in the short-story collection "Black Orchids", published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1942.
Plot summary.
Bess Huddleston arranges parties for New York society. She has been in contact with Wolfe once before, when she wanted him to
1943, as "Cordially Invited"
- New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, Jonathan Press #15, not dated, paperback
- 1956, New York: Avon #738 (with Edgar Allan Poe's "Some Words with a Mummy"), 1956, paperback
- New York: Hillman Periodicals, not dated
- 1998, Burlington, Ontario: Durkin Hayes Publishing, DH Audio August 1998, audio cassette (unabridged, read by David Elias), "Cordially Invited to Meet Death")