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Prisoner's Base
Prisoner's Base (British title "Out Goes She") is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by Viking Press in 1952.
Plot introduction.
A young woman who will shortly inherit control of a large manufacturing firm wants to rent a room in Nero Wolfe's house. Wolfe, outraged, puts her out; she is found murdered later that night. With no client in sight, Wolfe is not interested, but Archie feels responsible. His first step is to
crash a meeting of the manufacturer's board of directors.
The 1992 Bantam edition reprints the typewritten title page of Rex Stout's 1952 manuscript, showing that the book's original title was "Dare-Base." Dare-Base is a children's game, a variation on tag, also called prisoner's base.
"The title on my manuscript was "Dare-Base", from a game we played in Kansas when I was a boy," Rex Stout told biographer John McAleer. "My publisher