Stout search update

August 12, 2001

Hi Dharma and Greg,

You were right about their rarity....no one in town had any used

Wolfe books on the shelves! I just ordered one from Amazon: _The

Doorbell Rang_ It should be here in a week or so. I was

shocked to discover a copy of _Fer-De-Lance_ for...no

kidding....$12,500.00!!!

Kheyala

August 12, 2001

Hi Kheyala,

> Hi Dharma and Greg, You were right about their rarity....no one

>in town had any used Wolfe books on the shelves! I just ordered one

>from Amazon: _The Doorbell Rang_ It should be here in a week or so.

Great! I just looked and that's one I don't have... I should take a drive

back to the same bookstore and what they have now.

>I was shocked to discover a copy of _Fer-De-Lance_ for...no

>kidding....$12,500.00!!!

Must be a first edition (1934) in good condition. My copy is a

paperback edition put out in 1992 by Bantam Books. They reprinted a number

of them then and included extra goodies. Each one has an introduction by

someone different, often someone who knew him or some famous person who's a

fan - one is by Lena Horne. And each has some special material at the end.

This one has Rex Stout's own description of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin

and his description of the office, with Stout's drawing of the office! And

also one panel of a Nero Wolfe comic from the week of Nov. 26, 1956. If

anyone would like to have this, I can scan it and send it individually, not

to the whole list.

Love,

Dharma

August 13, 2001

Hi Dharma and Kheyala,

Sorry, I was working this weekend, so didn't have time till right now to

look up the Stout biography. Here it is:

REX STOUT: A BIOGRAPHY.

By John McAleer. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977.

xvi, 621pp. Illus., Notes, Bibliography, Index.

Forward by P.G. Wodehouse.

This is of the most thoroughly researched biographies of any in popular

literature. Lots of details, notes,

photos, anecdotes from Stout's life. McAleer knew Stout personally, and

has done lots of writing about

Stout in the specialty magazines in the mystery genre. I myself used to do

lots of scholarly writing in that field.

There's also an annotated biblography of Stout's writing:

REX STOUT: AN ANNOTATED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Ed. by Guy M. Townsend; Associate editors John McAleer, Judson

Sapp, Arriean Scheiner. New York: Garland, 1980.

Lists the Wolfe movies, books and stories, with 74 interviews

and 112 critical pieces.

That's it for now!

Love,

--Greg

At 05:40 PM 8/12/01 -0700, Dharma wrote:

>Hi Kheyala,

>

>> Hi Dharma and Greg, You were right about their rarity....no one

>>in town had any used Wolfe books on the shelves! I just ordered one

>>from Amazon: _The Doorbell Rang_ It should be here in a week or so.

>

>Great! I just looked and that's one I don't have... I should take a drive

>back to the same bookstore and what they have now.

>

>>I was shocked to discover a copy of _Fer-De-Lance_ for...no

>>kidding....$12,500.00!!!

>

>Must be a first edition (1934) in good condition. My copy is a

>paperback edition put out in 1992 by Bantam Books. They reprinted a number

>of them then and included extra goodies. Each one has an introduction by

>someone different, often someone who knew him or some famous person who's a

>fan - one is by Lena Horne. And each has some special material at the end.

>This one has Rex Stout's own description of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin

>and his description of the office, with Stout's drawing of the office! And

>also one panel of a Nero Wolfe comic from the week of Nov. 26, 1956. If

>anyone would like to have this, I can scan it and send it individually, not

>to the whole list.

>

>Love,

>Dharma

>

>/join

>

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August 13, 2001

Hi Greg,

>Sorry, I was working this weekend, so didn't have time till right now to

>look up the Stout biography. Here it is:

>snip<

Thanks so much! I'll look for these in the library.

>I myself used to do

>lots of scholarly writing in that field.

Wonderful! Maybe you could answer a question for me. Some years ago I

read a series of books in the local library - far from where I live now.

And I can't remember the author's name, can't find the books again. They

are set in Australia, the detective/cop is half aborigine, and his name, I

think, is Napoleon - he's called Nappy. Ring any bells??

Love,

Dharma

August 13, 2001

P.S. for Greg -

>Wonderful! Maybe you could answer a question for me. Some years ago I

>read a series of books in the local library - far from where I live now.

>And I can't remember the author's name, can't find the books again. They

>are set in Australia, the detective/cop is half aborigine, and his name, I

>think, is Napoleon - he's called Nappy.

Now that I think about it - maybe his name was Bonaparte, and they called

him Bony. ))

Love,

Dharma

August 13, 2001

Napoleon Bonaparte, or "Boney" is the detective. Arthur W. Upfield the

author. They are also clasics in the field, some of my favorites! Let me

know if you have trouble finding them in the library - there's a good

website of a dealer I know who carries hundreds of thousands of popular

novels of all genres. I've been buying from him since about 1983!

Love,

--Greg

At 01:54 AM 8/13/01 -0700, Dharma wrote:

>Hi Greg,

>

>>Sorry, I was working this weekend, so didn't have time till right now to

>>look up the Stout biography. Here it is:

>>snip<

>

>Thanks so much! I'll look for these in the library.

>

>>I myself used to do

>>lots of scholarly writing in that field.

>

>Wonderful! Maybe you could answer a question for me. Some years ago I

>read a series of books in the local library - far from where I live now.

>And I can't remember the author's name, can't find the books again. They

>are set in Australia, the detective/cop is half aborigine, and his name, I

>think, is Napoleon - he's called Nappy. Ring any bells??