# Homicide Trinity

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{{Short description|1962 novella collection by Rex Stout}}
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| name         = Homicide Trinity
| title_orig   = 
| translator   = 
| image        = Stout-HT-1.jpg
| caption      = First edition
| author       = [Rex Stout](/source/Rex_Stout)
| cover_artist = Bill English
| country      = United States
| language     = English
| series       = [Nero Wolfe](/source/Nero_Wolfe)
| genre        = [Detective fiction](/source/Detective_fiction)
| publisher    = [Viking Press](/source/Viking_Press)
| release_date = April 26, [1962](/source/1962_in_literature)
| media_type   = Print (hardcover)
| pages        = 182 pp. (first edition)
| oclc         = 1087613
| preceded_by  = [The Final Deduction](/source/The_Final_Deduction)
| followed_by  = [Gambit](/source/Gambit_(novel))
}}
'''''Homicide Trinity''''' is a collection of [Nero Wolfe](/source/Nero_Wolfe) [mystery](/source/Mystery_fiction) [novella](/source/novella)s by [Rex Stout](/source/Rex_Stout), published by the [Viking Press](/source/Viking_Press) in 1962. The book comprises three stories:

* "[Eeny Meeny Murder Mo](/source/Eeny_Meeny_Murder_Mo)", first published in ''[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine](/source/Ellery_Queen's_Mystery_Magazine)'' #220 (March 1962)
* "[Death of a Demon](/source/Death_of_a_Demon)", first serialized in three issues of ''[The Saturday Evening Post](/source/The_Saturday_Evening_Post)'' (June 10, 17 and  24, 1961)
* "[Counterfeit for Murder](/source/Counterfeit_for_Murder)", first serialized as "The Counterfeiter's Knife" in three issues of ''[The Saturday Evening Post](/source/The_Saturday_Evening_Post)'' (January 14, 21 and  28, 1961)

==Publication history==
*1962, New York: The [Viking Press](/source/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](/source/Otto_Penzler) describes the [first edition](/source/Edition_(book)) 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](/source/Book_of_the_Month_Club)), 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](/source/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](/source/e-book)
[[File:Rex Stout 1973.jpg|thumb|Author [Rex Stout](/source/Rex_Stout) in 1973]]

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:1962 short story collections
Category:Nero Wolfe short story collections
Category:English-language books
Category:Viking Press books

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