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Rex Stout Signature

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:40.00 - 60.00 USD
Rex Stout Signature
<B>Rex Stout Signature</B></I> on card 5.5" x 2", mounted on stiff card stock with a brief biographical sketch. Stout (1886-1975) was an American writer best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe. Stout started his literary career in the 1910s writing for the pulps, publishing romance, adventure, and some borderline detective stories. He sold articles and stories to a variety of magazines, and became a full-time writer in 1927. Stout lost the money he had made as a businessman in 1929. In Paris in 1929 he wrote his first book, <I>How Like a God,</B></I> an unusual psychological story written in the second person. After he returned to the U.S. Stout turned to writing detective fiction. The first was <I>Fer-de-Lance,</B></I> which introduced Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. Stout continued writing the Wolfe series -- at least one adventure per year -- until his death in 1975. Very fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>) <BR><BR><B>Importan
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