Black Orchids: A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/N/A
- Seller
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Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1945. Reprint Ediiton. Hardcover. Good/N/A. Second Printing of the reprint edition. In dark green boards with light green type. Wear at spine ends and corners. Pages heavily tanned.
Synopsis
Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Stout's first short story collection, the volume is composed of two novellas that had appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine: "Black Orchids" (August 1941, abridged as "Death Wears an Orchid") "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" (April 1942, abridged as "Invitation to Murder")
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB004835RS
- Title
- Black Orchids: A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Ediiton
- Publisher
- World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland and New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
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