Frame-Up for Murder

Short story

"Frame-Up for Murder"
Short story by Rex Stout
Illustrated by Austin Briggs
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Detective fiction
Publication
Published in	The Saturday Evening Post
Publication type	Periodical
Publication date	June–July 1958
Series	Nero Wolfe

"Frame-Up for Murder" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, serialized in three issues of The Saturday Evening Post (June 21, June 28 and July 5, 1958).

An expanded rewrite of the 1958 novella "Murder Is No Joke", "Frame-Up for Murder" did not appear in book form until the 1985 Bantam Books release, Death Times Three.

Publication History

"Frame-Up for Murder"

1958, The Saturday Evening Post, June 21 + June 28 + July 5, 1958^[1]

Death Times Three

1985, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-25425-1 December 1985, paperback
1995, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-76305-9 January 2, 1995, trade paperback
2000, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc. ISBN 0-7366-5638-3 September 27, 2000, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
2010, New York: Bantam ISBN 978-0-307-75588-9 May 5, 2010, e-book

References

^ Townsend, Guy M., Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1980, page 73. John McAleer, Judson Sapp and Arriean Schemer are associate editors of this definitive publication history. ISBN 0-8240-9479-4

External links

Quotations related to Death Times Three at Wikiquote

Nero Wolfe

Creator

Rex Stout

Characters

Novels

Fer-de-Lance (1934)
The League of Frightened Men (1935)
The Rubber Band (1936)
The Red Box (1937)
Too Many Cooks (1938)
Some Buried Caesar (1939)
Over My Dead Body (1940)
Where There's a Will (1940)
The Silent Speaker (1946)
Too Many Women (1947)
And Be a Villain (1948)
The Second Confession (1949)
In the Best Families (1950)
Murder by the Book (1951)
Prisoner's Base (1952)
The Golden Spiders (1953)
The Black Mountain (1954)
Before Midnight (1955)
Might as Well Be Dead (1956)
If Death Ever Slept (1957)
Champagne for One (1958)
Plot It Yourself (1959)
Too Many Clients (1960)
The Final Deduction (1961)
Gambit (1962)
The Mother Hunt (1963)
A Right to Die (1964)
The Doorbell Rang (1965)
Death of a Doxy (1966)
The Father Hunt (1968)
Death of a Dude (1969)
Please Pass the Guilt (1973)
A Family Affair (1975)

Novellas and
short stories

"Bitter End" (1940)
"Black Orchids" (1941)
"Cordially Invited to Meet Death" (1942)
"Not Quite Dead Enough" (1942)
"Booby Trap" (1944)
"Help Wanted, Male" (1945)
"Instead of Evidence" (1946)
"Before I Die" (1947)
"Man Alive" (1947)
"Bullet for One" (1948)
"Omit Flowers" (1948)
"Door to Death" (1949)
"The Gun with Wings" (1949)
"Disguise for Murder" (1950)
"The Cop-Killer" (1951)
"The Squirt and the Monkey" (1951)
"Home to Roost" (1952)
"This Won't Kill You" (1952)
"Invitation to Murder" (1953)
"The Zero Clue" (1953)
"When a Man Murders" (1954)
"Die Like a Dog" (1954)
"The Next Witness" (1955)
"Immune to Murder" (1955)
"A Window for Death" (1956)
"Too Many Detectives" (1956)
"Christmas Party" (1957)
"Easter Parade" (1957)
"Fourth of July Picnic" (1957)
"Murder Is No Joke" (1958), expanded as "Frame-Up for Murder" (1958)
"Method Three for Murder" (1960)
"Poison à la Carte" (1960)
"The Rodeo Murder" (1960)
"Counterfeit for Murder" (1961)
"Death of a Demon" (1961)
"Kill Now—Pay Later" (1961)
"Eeny Meeny Murder Mo" (1962)
"Blood Will Tell" (1963)
"Murder Is Corny" (1964)
"Assault on a Brownstone" (1985, posthumously published early draft of "Counterfeit for Murder")

Adaptations

Film	Meet Nero Wolfe (1936) The League of Frightened Men (1937)
Radio	The Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1943–44) The Amazing Nero Wolfe (1945) The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1950–51) Nero Wolfe (1982)
Television	Nero Wolfe (1977) Nero Wolfe (1981) The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000) Nero Wolfe (2001–02)