Death Times Three

If this book were being released today, I could easily see it being titled “Wolfe's B-sides and Remixes.” And then Stout would burst into flames.

We've got a story that was originally a novel for one of Stout's other characters, boiled down and tweaked to be a Wolfe mystery. Which felt pretty fresh, I've gotta say, pretty satisfying work.

Another was a different version of a story I read for the first time this year, and while I liked this version, the one that Stout went with originally is far better.

And then the rarity, the story that was almost impossible to find before this edition was published was truly worth the effort.

All in all, a great coda to his body of work.