TRIO FOR BLUNT INSTRUMENTS. A Nero Wolfe Threesome.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original patterned red and black cloth boards with titles in gilt to the red cloth spine, in the pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with just a touch of rubbing and fading to the spine tips. The contents, with mild spotting to the closed text block edges, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good, rubbed nicked and creased dustwrapper that has several short closed tears with associated creasing at the spine tips and folds. Not price-clipped (15s net to the lower front flap).

The thirteenth and final collection of Nero Wolfe novellas, comprising 'Kill Now - Pay Later', 'Murder Is Corny', and 'Blood Will Tell'. The previously unpublished 'Murder Is Corny' was the last 'Wolfe' novella to be written and the last to be published in Stout's lifetime. (Hubin).