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Death Times Three
Death Times Three is a collection of Nero Wolfe novellas by Rex Stout, published posthumously by Bantam Books in 1985. It is the only collection of Stout's Nero Wolfe stories not to have appeared first in hardcover. The book contains three stories, one never before published:
- "Bitter End", first printed in the November 1940 issue of "The American Magazine", and collected in the limited-edition volume "Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout" (1977). The story
" the book was never banned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Rather U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy indicted the publisher for distributing obscene literature through U.S. mail in violation of federal law. The book, in fact, was not considered obscene but U.S. mail had been used to distribute ads for the book which were found to appeal to "prurient interests." See main article
- State of Texas Certificate of Death, Registrar File Number 03-632, date of death 30 Sep 1994.