Triple Zeck -- A Nero Wolfe Omnibus: And Be a Villain; The Second Confession; In the Best Families

New York: Viking Press, 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 20x20x20. Book club edition, gutter code H 03. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, spine leans forward a bit, corner of rear jacket flap creased. 1974 Hard Cover. 502 pp. 8vo. Three mysteries in one volume: And Be a Villain; The Second Confession; In the Best Families. Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as 'that Falstaff of detectives.' Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair). The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.