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PLOT IT YOURSELF
by Stout, Rex
- Used
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight fade to spine panel. (32451)
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1959. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight fade to spine panel. (32451). Octavo, cloth. A Nero Wolfe mystery novel. "Rex Stout has been a member, an officer and a guiding spirit of many an organization of professional writers, and his lively knowledge of such organizations brightens Plot It Yourself, in which Nero Wolfe's client is the Joint Committee on Plagiarism of the National Association of Authors and Dramatists and the Book Publishers of America. An adroit scheme for bringing fraudulent chargers of plagiarism leads into murder and to an error by Wolfe which so enrages him that he vows to drink no beer and eat no meat until he solves the case — which he does promptly and satisfactorily in one of his better book-length adventures." NY Times Book Review, 8 November, 1959. Hubin, pp. 777-778. Townsend, Rex Stout: An Annotated and Secondary Bibliography, A40a.
Synopsis
Plot It Yourself (British title Murder in Style) is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1959, and also collected in the omnibus volume Kings Full of Aces (Viking 1969).
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32451
- Title
- PLOT IT YOURSELF
- Author
- Stout, Rex
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight fade to spine panel. (32451)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Mystery
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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