Rex Stout | Black Orchids, 1942

Rex Stout

Black Orchids. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original brown cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, some browning to endpapers, spine bumped, soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some loss and tears, repairs to reverse with glue residue

Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series is, in the opinion of Guy M. Townsend, "the most outstanding achievement in the mystery field in the post-Holmes era" (see Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980)).