# Death Times Three

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***Death Times Three*** is a collection of [Nero Wolfe](/source/Nero_Wolfe) novellas by [Rex Stout](/source/Rex_Stout), published posthumously by [Bantam Books](/source/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](/source/Bitter_End_(short_story))", first printed in the November 1940 issue of *[The American Magazine](/source/The_American_Magazine)*, and collected in the limited-edition volume *Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout* (1977). The story is a re-working of Stout's Tecumseh Fox story *[Bad for Business](/source/Bad_for_Business)*.[1]
- "[Frame-Up for Murder](/source/Frame-Up_for_Murder)", an expanded rewrite of the 1958 novella "[Murder Is No Joke](/source/Murder_Is_No_Joke)" that was serialized in three issues of *[The Saturday Evening Post](/source/The_Saturday_Evening_Post)* (June 21, June 28 and July 5, 1958) but never published in book form.[2]
- "[Assault on a Brownstone](/source/Counterfeit_for_Murder#"Assault_on_a_Brownstone")", an early draft of the 1961 novella "[Counterfeit for Murder](/source/Counterfeit_for_Murder)"; in this draft, Hattie Annis, who would become one of the most carefully drawn and favorite non-recurring Nero Wolfe characters in the revised, renamed published version, is the murder victim, while Tammy survives and has an implied romantic relationship with Archie.[3]

## Publication history

- 1985, New York: [Bantam Books](/source/Bantam_Books) ISBN 0-553-25425-1 December 1985, paperback
- 1995, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-76305-9 January 2, 1995, trade paperback
- 2000, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc. ISBN 0-7366-5638-3 September 27, 2000, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
- 2010, New York: Bantam ISBN 978-0-307-75588-9 May 5, 2010, [e-book](/source/E-book)

## References

1. Townsend, Guy M., *Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography* (1980, New York: Garland Publishing; ISBN 0-8240-9479-4), pp. 55–56. John McAleer, Judson Sapp and Arriean Schemer are associate editors of this definitive publication history.

1. Townsend, Guy M., *Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography* (1980, New York: Garland Publishing; ISBN 0-8240-9479-4), p. 73

1. McAleer, John, ed., introduction to *Death Times Three* (The Rex Stout Library). New York: [Bantam Books](/source/Bantam_Books), December 1985, reissue edition January 1995, ISBN 0-553-76305-9

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