Frame-Up for Murder

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| author = Rex Stout

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| language = English

| series = Nero Wolfe

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| pub_date = June–July 1958

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"Frame-Up for Murder" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, serialized in three issues of The Saturday Evening Post (June 21, June 28 and July 5, 1958).

An expanded rewrite of the 1958 novella "Murder Is No Joke", "Frame-Up for Murder" did not appear in book form until the 1985 Bantam Books release, Death Times Three.

Publication History

1958, The Saturday Evening Post, June 21 + June 28 + July 5, 1958Townsend, Guy M., Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1980, page 73. John McAleer, Judson Sapp and Arriean Schemer are associate editors of this definitive publication history. {{ISBN|0-8240-9479-4}}

1985, New York: Bantam Books {{ISBN|0-553-25425-1}} December 1985, paperback
1995, New York: Bantam Books {{ISBN|0-553-76305-9}} January 2, 1995, trade paperback
2000, Newport Beach, California: Books on Tape, Inc. {{ISBN|0-7366-5638-3}} September 27, 2000, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
2010, New York: Bantam {{ISBN|978-0-307-75588-9}} May 5, 2010, e-book