Ed Price Collection of 1934-2004 (bulk 1934-1981) MS.2018.057 http://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/MS2018-057

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Summary Information ...... 3 Administrative Information ...... 4 Related Materials ...... 4 Biographical note: Rex Stout ...... 5 Biographical note: Ed Price ...... 6 Scope and Contents ...... 6 Arrangement ...... 6 Collection Inventory ...... 7

Ed Price Collection of Rex Stout MS.2018.057

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Creator: Stout, Rex Title: Ed Price collection of Rex Stout ID: MS.2018.057 Date [inclusive]: 1934-2004 Physical Description 6.5 Linear feet (5 boxes) Language of the English Material: Abstract: Ed Price's collection of writings by author Rex Stout contains clippings of articles, , and short stories, often published serially. The collection also includes promotional materials from movies and television shows based on Stout's novels, and a menu and shirt from , a literary society. Preferred Citation

Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Ed Price collection of Rex Stout, MS.2018.057, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Ed Price Collection of Rex Stout MS.2018.057

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Publication Information Processed by Stephanie Hall in December 2018. This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace.

Restrictions on access Collection is open for research.

Restrictions on use These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.

Provenance Gift of Ed Price, September 2018.

Related Materials

Separated Materials Published works associated with this collection have been transferred within the Burns Library and can be found in the Boston College Library catalog.

Related Materials John J. McAleer faculty papers, BC.1995.016, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Judson C. Sapp papers and collection of Rex Stout, MS.1996.022, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

Rex Stout papers, MS.1986.096, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

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Rex Stout was an American author best known for his detective fiction. He was born December 1, 1886 in Noblesville, Indiana, the sixth of nine children. In 1887 his parents, John and Lucetta Stout, bought a forty-acre farm south of Topeka, , where Stout grew up. As a young man, Stout tried several trades, including bookkeeping (with a stint in the Navy as a bookkeeper on 's yacht), ushering at an opera house in Topeka, studying law, and working as a cigar store clerk. He also traveled around the and began to work seriously at writing.

Stout published serialized novels and short stories throughout the 1910s, mostly in All Story magazine, but took a break from writing in 1916 when he settled in , married Fay Kennedy, and started a savings and loan business for students with his brother, called the Educational Thrift Service (ETS), which he left in 1929. He and Fay spend the next couple of years in Europe. He worked on the first of several "straight" novels he would produce, How Like a God (1929). He published several more novels in this vein. In 1931, he and Fay divorced. The next year he married Pola Weinbach Hoffman, a textile designer, and together they had two daughters, Barbara (1933) and Rebecca (1937).

In 1934, Stout wrote his first novel featuring the characters Nero Wolfe and his sidekick , Fer-de-Lance. For the next four decades, he dedicated his career to writing the Nero Wolfe series. During that time, Stout wrote seventy-two Wolfe novels and novellas, which spawned several radio, television, and film adaptations, and built the dedicated fan base that would later become the Wolfe Pack. In 1969, he received the crime-fiction award, the Silver Dagger, from the Crime Writers' Association.

Stout was involved in the operation of many professional organizations, among them the Authors' Guild and Authors' League of America (both of which he served as president), the Dramatists Guild, the Mystery Writers of America, the Screen Writers' Guild, and the Radio Writers Guild. He was also a lead figure in several political groups. During World War II he was chairman of the Writers' War Board. He helped to found the Fight for Freedom Committee and and gave a series of radio broadcasts concerning Axis called "." Following the war he continued his political activism by helping to found and serving as president of both the Society for the Prevention of World War III and the Writers Board for World Government.

Rex Stout died on October 27, 1975 at the age of 89 at his estate, High Meadow, in Connecticut.

Sources:

Anderson, David R. Rex Stout. New York: F. Ungar, 1984. Erickson, Scott W. "Stout, Rex." In American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-02260.html.

McAleer, John J. Rex Stout: A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977.

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Ed (Isaac Edward) Price lives in New York City, New York. He is a Rex Stout enthusiast and assembled a considerable collection of Stout publications.

Scope and Contents

Assembled by Ed Price, this collection contains articles, novellas, and short stories written by Rex Stout, often as serial publications. Many of the short stories and novellas were later turned into novels and republished under different titles, which is noted with the corresponding story. Also included are photographs and posters from movies and television shows based on Stout's novels, and a comic strip about Stout's detective character, Nero Wolfe. Additionally, the collection contains a menu and shirt from the Wolfe Pack, a Nero Wolfe literary society.

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

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The Adventures of Nero Wolfe photograph, 1951 January box 1 folder 1

"Alphabet Hicks," The Star Weekly, 1942 May 23 box 3 folder 1

The American cover, undated box 3 folder 2

"," The Standard, 1949 May 7 box 3 folder 3

"Author Rex Stout vs. the FBI," Life, 1965 December 10 box 2 folder 1

"Before I Die," , 1947 April box 1 folder 2

"Before I Die," Varsity, 1950 June box 1 folder 3

"," The Montreal Star, 1956 June 16 box 2 folder 2

"," The American Magazine, 1940 November box 1 folder 4

"," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1943 January 10 box 2 folder 3

"The Body in the Hall" (), The American Magazine, box 1 folder 5 1954 December

"," The American Magazine, 1948 July box 1 folder 6

Champagne for One photograph, 2001 box 1 folder 7

"The Christmas-Party Murder" (Christmas Party), Collier's, 1957 box 2 folder 4 January

"The Cop Killer," The American Magazine, 1951 February box 1 folder 8

"Cordially Invited--" (Cordially to Meet Death), The Philadelphia box 3 folder 4 Inquirer, 1943 May 16

"The Counterfeiter's Knife" (Parts 1-3) (Counterfeit for Murder), box 2 folder 5 The Saturday Evening Post, 1961 January 14-28

"Dark Revenge" ( Murders) The American Magazine, box 1 folder 9 1939 June

"Death of a Demon" (Parts 1-3), The Saturday Evening Post, 1961 box 2 folder 6 June 10-24

"Death of a Doxy," Argosy, 1967 June box 1 folder 10

"Death of a Doxy," The Star Weekly, 1966 October 15 box 2 folder 7

"," (Parts 1 and 2), The Canadian Magazine Star box 2 folder 8 Weekly, 1969 November 22-29

"Death Wears an Orchid" (Black Orchids), The American box 1 folder 11 Magazine, 1941 August

"," Argosy, 1966 April box 1 folder 12

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"," The American Magazine, 1949 June box 1 folder 13

"Double for Death" (Parts 1-6), The Saturday Evening Post, 1939 box 2 folder 10-15 September 2

"The Easter Parade Murders" (Easter Parade), Look, 1957 April 16 box 2 folder 16

"," Argosy, 1968 November box 1 folder 14

"The Father Hunt" (Part 1), The Canadian Magazine Star Weekly, box 2 folder 17 1968 October 12

"The Father Hunt" (Parts 1 and 2), The Canadian Magazine Star box 2 folder 18 Weekly, 1968 October 12-18

"Fer-de-Lance," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1937 February 21 box 3 folder 5

"," The Star Weekly, 1961 December 2 box 3 folder 6

"Frame-Up for Murder" () (Parts 1-3), The box 2 folder 19-21 Saturday Evening Post, 1958 June-July

"The Frightened Men" (Parts 1-6) (The League of Frightened Men), box 3 folder 7-12 The Saturday Evening Post, 1935 June-July

"," The Star Weekly, 1963 April 20 box 3 folder 13

"The Gun with Wings," The American Magazine, 1949 December box 1 folder 15

"The Hand in the Glove," Detroit Free Press, 1938 February 6 box 3 folder 14

"The Hand in the Glove," New York Journal American, 1938 box 3 folder 15 February 6

"Immune to Murder," The American Magazine, 1955 November box 1 folder 16

"In the Best of Families" (In the Best of Families), The Standard, box 3 folder 16 1951 June 23

"Invitation to Murder" (Cordially Invited to Meet Death), The box 1 folder 17 American Magazine, 1942 April

"It Happened Last Night," The Canadian Magazine, 1936 March box 2 folder 22

"Kill Now—Pay Later" (Parts 1-3), The Saturday Evening Post, box 2 folder 23 1961 December 9-30

"The Labor Union Murder" (), Look, 1957 box 2 folder 24 July 9

"The Last Witness" (), The American Magazine, box 1 folder 18 1955 May

The League of Frightened Men, film photographs, 1937 box 1 folder 19

The League of Frightened Men movie lobby card, 1937 box 3 folder 17

The League of Frightened Men poster, circa 1937

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"Let's Take the Mystery Out of Cooking," The American Magazine, box 1 folder 20 1956 August

"," The American Magazine, 1947 December box 1 folder 21

"Man Alive," Varsity, 1951 January box 1 folder 22

Meet Nero Wolfe, film photographs and promotional materials, 1936 box 1 folder 23-25 box 2 folder 25

"Meet Nero Wolfe," publicity publication, 1936 box 3 folder 18

"Method Three for Murder" (Parts 1-3), The Saturday Evening Post, box 2 folder 26 1960 January-February

"," The Canadian Magazine Star Weekly, box 2 folder 27 1971 October 30

"The Mother Hunt," The Star Weekly, 1963 October 26 box 2 folder 28

"Mountain Cat" (Part 2), Detroit Free Press, 1940 January 21 box 3 folder 19

"Mr. Cinderella," Detroit Free Press, 1939 February 19 box 3 folder 20

"Murder on Tuesday" (), The American box 1 folder 26 Magazine, 1946 May

"Mystery," The American Magazine, 1940 August box 1 folder 27

"Nero Wolfe and the Communist Killer" (Home to Roost), The box 1 folder 28 American Magazine, 1952 January

"Nero Wolfe and the Vanishing Clue" (A Window for Death), The box 1 folder 29 American Magazine, 1956 May

Nero Wolfe art print, 1978 box 3 folder 21

Nero Wolfe comics, from multiple publications, 1956-1959 box 3 folder 22-32

Nero Wolfe television show photographs, 1981 box 1 folder 30

"Not Quite Dead Enough," The American Magazine, 1942 box 1 folder 31 December

"O'Careless Love" (Parts 1-5), The Saturday Evening Post, 1935 box 3 folder 33-36 September-October

"," The American Magazine, 1948 November box 1 folder 32

"Over My Dead Body," The American Magazine, 1939 September box 1 folder 33

"The Penthouse Murder" (The Rodeo Murder), Argosy, 1961 box 1 folder 34 January

"" (Parts 1 and 2), The Canadian Magazine Star box 2 folder 29 Weekly, 1973 November 17-24

"Point of Death" (Fer-de-Lance), The American Magazine, 1934 box 1 folder 35 November Ed Price Collection of Rex Stout MS.2018.057

- Page 9 - "Prisoner's Base" (Parts 1 and 2), Los Angeles Examiner, 1953 May- box 3 folder 37 June

"" (Parts 1-5), The American Magazine, 1936-1937 box 1 folder 36-37

"The Red Box," Detroit Free Press, 1937 August 22 box 3 folder 38

"The Red Bull" () The American Magazine, box 1 folder 38 1938 December

"Red Threads" (Parts 2 and 4), New York Sunday News, 1939 July box 3 folder 39 2-16

"," The Star Weekly, 1965 April 10 box 2 folder 30

"" (Parts 1-6), The Saturday Evening Post, 1936 box 2 folder 31-32 February-March

"Scared to Death" (The Zero Clue), The American Magazine, 1953 box 1 folder 39 December

"See No Evil" (The Squirt and the Monkey), The American box 1 folder 40 Magazine, 1951 August

"The Silent Speaker," The Standard, 1947 June 21 box 3 folder 40

"Sisters in Touch" (Where There's a Will), The American box 1 folder 41 Magazine, 1940 May

"Some Buried Caesar," (Parts 1 and 2), Detroit Free Press, 1939 box 3 folder 41 June 18-25

"Some Buried Caesar," Triple Detective, 1951 box 1 folder 42

"This Will Kill You," (This Won't Kill You) The American box 1 folder 43 Magazine, 1952 September

"," Detroit Free Press, 1938 December 4 box 3 folder 42

"Too Many Cooks" (Parts 1-6), The American Magazine, 1938 box 1 folder 44-45 March-August

"," Collier's, 1956 September box 2 folder 33

"Tough Cops Gift," What's New, 1953 December box 2 folder 34

"The Twisted Scarf" (Disguise for Murder), The American box 1 folder 46 Magazine, 1950 September

"" (When a Man Murders...), The American box 1 folder 47 Magazine, 1954 May

"Who's Who--and Why," The Saturday Evening Post, 1935 October box 2 folder 35 26

"Will to Murder" (Invitation to Murder), The American Magazine, box 1 folder 48 1953 August

The Wolfe Pack menu, The Culinary Institute of America, 2004 box 1 folder 49 May 14

The Wolfe Pack shirt, undated Ed Price Collection of Rex Stout MS.2018.057

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