Rex Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction, particularly the 33 novels and about 40 novellas that featured the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin between 1934 and 1975.

In 1959, Stout received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon XXXI, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.

Nero Wolfe Series:

  1. Fer-De-Lance (1934)

  2. The League of Frightened Men (1935)

  3. The Rubber Band (1936)

  4. The Red Box (1937)

  5. Too Many Cooks (1938)

  6. Some Buried Caesar (1939)

  7. Over My Dead Body (1939)

  8. Where There's a Will (1940)

  9. Black Orchids (1942)

  10. Not Quite Dead Enough (1944)

  11. The Silent Speaker (1946)

  12. Too Many Women (1947)

  13. And Be a Villain (1948)

  14. Trouble in Triplicate (1949)

  15. The Second Confession (1949)

  16. Three Doors to Death (1950)

  17. In the Best Families (1950)

  18. Curtains for Three (1950)

  19. Murder By the Book (1951)

  20. Triple Jeopardy (1952)

  21. Prisoner's Base (1952)

  22. The Golden Spiders (1953)

  23. Three Men Out (1954)

  24. The Black Mountain (1954)

  25. Before Midnight (1955)

  26. Three Witnesses (1956)

  27. Might As Well Be Dead (1956)

  28. Three for the Chair (1957)

  29. If Death Ever Slept (1957)

  30. And Four to Go (1958)

  31. Champagne for One (1958)

  32. Plot It Yourself (1959)

  33. Three At Wolfe's Door (1960)

  34. Too Many Clients (1960)

  35. The Final Deduction (1961)

  36. Homicide Trinity (1962)

  37. Gambit (1962)

  38. The Mother Hunt (1963)

  39. Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964)

  40. A Right to Die (1964)

  41. The Doorbell Rang (1965)

  42. Death of a Doxy (1966)

  43. The Father Hunt (1968)

  44. Death of a Dude (1969)

  45. Please Pass the Guilt (1973)

  46. A Family Affair (1975)

  47. Death Times Three (1985)

continued in the series by Robert Goldsborough

  1. Murder in E Minor (1986)

  2. Death on Deadline (1987)

  3. Bloodied Ivy (1988)

  4. Last Coincidence (1989)

  5. Fade to Black (1990)

  6. Silver Spire (1992)

  7. The Missing Chapter (1993)

  8. Archie Meets Nero Wolfe (2012)

  9. Murder in the Ball Park (2014)

  10. Archie in the Crosshairs (2015)

  11. Stop the Presses! (2016)

  12. Murder, Stage Left (2017)

  13. The Battered Badge (2018)

  14. Death of an Art Collector (2019)

  15. Archie Goes Home (2020)

  16. Trouble at the Brownstone (2021)

  17. The Missing Heiress (2023)

Tecumseh Fox:

  1. Double for Death (1939)

  2. Bad for Business (1940)

  3. The Broken Vase (1941)

Novels:

  Her Forbidden Knight (1913)

  A Prize for Princes (1914)

  Under the Andes (1914)

  How Like a God (1929)

  Seed On the Wind (1930)

  The President Vanishes (1934)

  The Hand in the Glove (1937)

  The Mountain Cat (1939)

  Red Threads (1939)

  Alphabet Hicks (1941)

Collections:

  Target Practice (1997)

  An Officer and a Lady (2000)

  The Last Drive And Other Stories (2015)