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822:: "Yellow boards, gray cloth spine; front cover printed with a blue design; spine printed with blue lettering; rear cover blank. Issued in a red, black, and white dust photographic wrapper which has been die cut to reveal the blue printed design on the front cover. … The dust wrapper is noteworthy for its ugliness and the singularly misconceived design element of the pointess die cut."
493:(January 12, 2009)—Rex Stout's witty, fast-moving prose hasn't dated a day, while Wolfe himself is one of the enduringly great eccentrics of popular fiction. I've spent the past four decades reading and re-reading Stout's novels for pleasure, and they have yet to lose their savor ... It is to revel in such writing that I return time and again to Stout's books, and in particular to
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724:(2010) was the first DVD release of the international version of the episode, which includes a brief closing scene in which Orrie visits the brownstone. The Netherlands release has optional Dutch subtitles and, like the A&E DVD release, presents the episode in 4:3
1098:, February 11, 2010; EAN 8717344739801. Two-disc set features include "Over My Dead Body" (presented as a 90-minute film with a single set of titles and credits) and "Death of a Doxy." Screen format is 4:3 full frame. Licensed by
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murderer and is nearly killed herself. For her protection, she is moved into the brownstone, where she helps Wolfe and Archie force Thales' hand after Wolfe offers $ 50,000 cash for her assistance.
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360:"Incumbency". Chapter 7; perhaps unfamiliar in the sense that Wolfe uses it: "Mr. Cather has worked for me, on occasion, for years, and I am under an incumbency."
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Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography
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373:," wrote Rev. Frederick G. Gotwald in
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756:(1981), an NBC TV series starring
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712:"Death of a Doxy" is one of the
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491:"Forty years with Nero Wolfe"
2041:The Adventures of Nero Wolfe
2018:The League of Frightened Men
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1096:A Nero Wolfe Mystery—Serie 2
981:Gotwald, Rev. Frederick G.,
801:, August 19, 1966, hardcover
722:A Nero Wolfe Mystery—Serie 2
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983:The Nero Wolfe Companion
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996:A Catalogue of Crime
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688:A Nero Wolfe Mystery
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562:A Nero Wolfe Mystery
489:, About Last Night,
480:A Catalogue of Crime
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1699:"Help Wanted, Male"
1545:The Final Deduction
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1395:The Silent Speaker
1365:Some Buried Caesar
1122:Townsend, Guy M.,
1109:2011-07-24 at the
1104:Just Entertainment
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