# Triple Jeopardy

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{{short description|Book by Rex Stout}}
{{about|the 1952 anthology|"Triple Jeopardy!", the 'Jeopardy!' game show round|Celebrity Jeopardy! (2022 TV series)|other uses|Triple Jeopardy (disambiguation)}}
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| name         = Triple Jeopardy
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| 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 = March 21, [1952](/source/1952_in_literature)
| media_type   = Print (hardcover)
| pages        = 216 pp. (first edition)
| oclc         = 1389256
| preceded_by  = [Murder by the Book](/source/Murder_by_the_Book)
| followed_by  = [Prisoner's Base](/source/Prisoner's_Base)
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'''''Triple Jeopardy''''' 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 1952. Itself collected in the omnibus volume ''Kings Full of Aces'' (Viking 1969), the book comprises three stories that first appeared in ''[The American Magazine](/source/The_American_Magazine)'':

* "[Home to Roost](/source/Home_to_Roost_(short_story))" (January 1952, as "Nero Wolfe and the Communist Killer")
* "[The Cop-Killer](/source/The_Cop-Killer_(short_story))" (February 1951, as "The Cop Killer")
* "[The Squirt and the Monkey](/source/The_Squirt_and_the_Monkey)" (August 1951, as "See No Evil")

==Publication history==
*1952, New York: The [Viking Press](/source/Viking_Press), March 21, 1952, hardcover<ref>Townsend, Guy M., ''Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography'' (1980, New York: Garland Publishing; {{ISBN|0-8240-9479-4}}), pp. 82–83</ref>
:In his limited-edition pamphlet, ''Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I'', [Otto Penzler](/source/Otto_Penzler) describes the [first edition](/source/Edition_(book)) of ''Triple Jeopardy'': "Yellow cloth, front cover and spine printed with black; rear cover blank. Issued in a black, white, and purple dust wrapper."<ref>Penzler, Otto, ''Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I'' (2001, New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, limited edition of 250 copies), p. 28</ref>
:In April 2006, ''Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine'' estimated that the first edition of ''Triple Jeopardy'' had a value of between $300 and $500.<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. 34. The first edition "states 'First published…' on the copyright page."</ref>
*1952, New York: The Viking Press ([Mystery Guild](/source/Book_of_the_Month_Club)), July 1952, 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>
*1952, London: [Collins Crime Club](/source/Collins_Crime_Club), October 13, 1952, hardcover
*1957, New York: Bantam #A-1631, July 1957, paperback
*1969, New York: The Viking Press, ''Kings Full of Aces: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus'' (with [''Too Many Cooks''](/source/Too_Many_Cooks_(novel)) and ''[Plot It Yourself](/source/Plot_It_Yourself)''), January 28, 1969, hardcover
*1971, New York: Bantam Books S5952, 1957 Edition; 6th printing, June 1971, paperback, .75¢
*1993, New York: Bantam Books (Rex Stout Library) {{ISBN|0-553-76307-5}}, April 1993, introduction by [Aaron Elkins](/source/Aaron_Elkins), paperback
*1997, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc. {{ISBN|0-7366-3748-6}} July 21, 1997, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
*2010, New York: Bantam {{ISBN|978-0-307-75630-5}} April 28, 2010, [e-book](/source/e-book)

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:1952 short story collections
Category:Nero Wolfe short story collections
Category:English-language books
Category:Viking Press books

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