Target Practice - Couverture souple

Stout, Rex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0786704969 ISBN 13 : 9780786704965

Editeur : Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Target Practice brings together for the first time the complete short fiction that Rex Stout wrote for the popular All-Story Magazine, the famous journal which published the cream of his early writings. Including "Secrets", the first crime fiction Stout wrote, and "Justice Ends at Home", with a detective team foreshadowing Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, these seventeen stories stand among the master's best.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

An invaluable sample of the early work of one of America's finest mystery writers

Decades before detective Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, first struck fear into the hearts of Manhattan's criminals, Rex Stout wrote fiction for All-Stories Magazine. By the time the Wolfe series brought him fame, Stout had put his early work behind him, and made no effort to preserve it. At the time of his death, these early mysteries and suspense stories were thought to be lost forever, but deep in the Library of Congress lay copies of the original magazine. Published for the first time in 1997, these early gems show a writer deploying all the humor, style, and clever plotting that would make Nero Wolfe a star.

Included here are 'Secrets,' Stout's first mystery, 'Target Practice,' a story of World War I, and 'Justice Ends at Home,' whose main characters will look very familiar to fans of Nero and Archie.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786704969
• ISBN 13: 9780786704965
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible