Nero Wolfe Plot Synopses

1934 Fer-de-Lance
1935The League of Frightened Men
1936 The Rubber Band
1937 The Red Box
1938 Too Many Cooks
1939 Some Buried Caesar
1940 Over My Dead Body
1940 Where There's a Will
1942 Black Orchids (2 stories)
     Black Orchids
     Cordially Invited to Meet Death
1944 Not Quite Dead Enough
1946 The Silent Speaker
1947 Two Many Women
1948 And Be a Villain
1949 Trouble in Triplicate
     Before I Die
     Help Wanted, Male
     Instead of Evidence
     (orig. Murder on Tuesday)
1949 The Second Confession
1950 Three Doors to Death (3 stories)
1947     Man Alive
1948     Omit Flowers
1949     Door to Death
1950 In the Best Familes
1951 Curtains for Three (3 stories)
     The Gun with Wings
     Bullet for One
     Diagnosis for Murder
1951 Murder by the Book
1952 Triple Jeopardy (3 stories)
     Home to Roost
     (orig. Nero Wolfe and the
      Communist Killer)
     The Cop Killer
     The Squirt and the Monkey
     (orig. See No Evil)
1953 Prisoner's Base
1953 The Golden Spiders
1954 Three Men Out (3 stories)
     Invitation to Murder
     (orig. Will to Murder)
     The Zero Clue
     (orig. Scared to Death)
     This Won't Kill You
1954 Black Mountain
1955 Before Midnight
1956 Three Witnesses (3 stories)
     The Next Witness
     (orig. The Last Witness)
     When A Man Murders...
     Die like a Dog
     (orig. The Body in the Hall)
1956 Might as Well be Dead
1957 Three for the Chair (3 stories)
     A Window for Death
     (orig. Nero Wolfe and the
      Vanishing Clue)
     Immune to Murder
     Too Many Detectives
1957 If Death Ever Slept
1958 And Four to Go (4 stories)
     Christmas Party
     Easter Parade
     Christmas Party
     Murder Is No Joke
1958 Champagne for One
1959 Plot It Yourself
1960 Three at Wolfes Door (3 stories)
     Poison ala Carte
     The Rodeo Murder
     Method Three for Murder
1960 Too Many Clients
1961 The Final Deduction
1962 Homicide Trinity (3 stories)
     Eeny Meeny Murder Mo
     Death of a Demon
     Counterfeit For Murder
     (orig. The Counterfeiter's Knife)
1962 Gambit
1963 The Mother Hunt
1964 Trio For Blunt Instruments (3 stories)
     Kill Now - Pay Later
     Murder is Corny
     Blood Will Tell
1964 A Right To Die
1965 The Doorbell Rang
1966 Death of a Doxy
1968 The Father Hunt
1969 Death of a Dude
1973 Please Pass the Guilt
1975 A Family Affair
1985 Death Time Three (3 stories)
     Bitter End
     Murder is Corny
     Assault on a Brownstone
     (var. of Counterfeiter's For Murder)

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