Rex Stout | Too Many Cooks, 1938

Rex Stout

Too Many Cooks. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1938

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, final gathering on blue paper, original red cloth lettered in blue, DUST-JACKET, some chips to edges, some light browning, dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some tears and creases

Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series is, in the opinion of Guy M. Townsend, "the most outstanding achievement in the mystery field in the post-Holmes era" (see Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980)).