Rex Stout — Three Men out

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this very scarce collection of crime novellas from American novelist Rex Stout. First UK edition. Very scarce. A collection of three mystery novellas following brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective Nero Wolfe, including: Invitation to Murder, The Zero Clue, and This Won't Kill You. Written by Rex Todhunter Stout, an American writer noted for his detective fiction, best known as the creator of the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear and a small mark to the front board. Original dust wrapper is sound with light wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine with the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. The odd small mark to the panels. A large tear resulting in loss to the front fly-leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting predominantly to the endpapers and the fore edge. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Good Only.