{{Short description|1962 novella collection by Rex Stout}} {{infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Homicide Trinity | title_orig = | translator = | image = Stout-HT-1.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Rex Stout | cover_artist = Bill English | country = United States | language = English | series = Nero Wolfe | genre = Detective fiction | publisher = Viking Press | release_date = April 26, 1962 | media_type = Print (hardcover) | pages = 182 pp. (first edition) | oclc = 1087613 | preceded_by = The Final Deduction | followed_by = Gambit }} '''''Homicide Trinity''''' is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1962. The book comprises three stories:
* "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo", first published in ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' #220 (March 1962) * "Death of a Demon", first serialized in three issues of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' (June 10, 17 and 24, 1961) * "Counterfeit for Murder", first serialized as "The Counterfeiter's Knife" in three issues of ''The Saturday Evening Post'' (January 14, 21 and 28, 1961)
==Publication history== *1962, New York: The Viking Press, April 26, 1962, hardcover<ref>Townsend, Guy M., ''Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography'' (1980, New York: Garland Publishing; {{ISBN|0-8240-9479-4}}), p. 86. John McAleer, Judson Sapp and Arriean Schemer are associate editors of this definitive publication history.</ref> :In his limited-edition pamphlet, ''Collecting Mystery Fiction #10, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part II'', Otto Penzler describes the first edition of ''Homicide Trinity'': "Blue cloth, front cover stamped in blind; spine printed with deep pink; rear cover blank. Issued in a mainly blue dust wrapper."<ref>Penzler, Otto, ''Collecting Mystery Fiction #10, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part II'' (2001, New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, limited edition of 250 copies), p. 14</ref> :In April 2006, ''Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine'' estimated that the first edition of ''Homicide Trinity'' had a value of between $150 and $350. The estimate is for a copy in very good to fine condition in a like dustjacket.<ref>Smiley, Robin H., "Rex Stout: A Checklist of Primary First Editions." ''Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine'' (Volume 16, Number 4), April 2006, p. 35</ref> *1962, Toronto: Macmillan, 1962, hardcover *1962, New York: Viking (Mystery Guild), August 1962, hardcover :The far less valuable Viking book club edition may be distinguished from the first edition in three ways: ::* The dust jacket has "Book Club Edition" printed on the inside front flap, and the price is absent (first editions may be price clipped if they were given as gifts). ::* Book club editions are sometimes thinner and always taller (usually a quarter of an inch) than first editions. ::* Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine).<ref>Penzler, Otto, ''Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I'', pp. 19–20</ref> *1963, London: Collins Crime Club, February 18, 1963, hardcover *1966, New York: Bantam #F-3118, February 1966, paperback *1993, New York: Bantam Crime Line {{ISBN|0-553-23446-3}} August 1993, paperback, Rex Stout Library edition with introduction by Stephen Greenleaf *1997, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc. {{ISBN|0-7366-4062-2}} October 31, 1997, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard) *2010, New York: Bantam Crimeline {{ISBN|978-0-307-75599-5}} July 7, 2010, e-book [[File:Rex Stout 1973.jpg|thumb|Author Rex Stout in 1973]]
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Category:1962 short story collections Category:Nero Wolfe short story collections Category:English-language books Category:Viking Press books