About this title: A million-dollar television gameshow turns lethal when a contestant is found murdered. With so much money at stake, Nero Wolfe leaves his beloved armchair and joins sidekick Archie Goodwin in his search for the killer.
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Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good in Very Good jacket. The endpapers are also browned and foxed from age. The dust jacket has a little chipping near the spine. The covers and the book also have a little shelf wear. This is a Nero Wolfe mystery about murder in an advertising agency. read more
Edition: 6th Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1971
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Address written on cover. Name inside. Some creasing and soiling to wraps. Light shelf wear. Solid copy with clean pages. read more
Edition: 4th Bantam Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Fair. 6¾"-7¾" Tall. Bantam F2704, 149 pp, Reading copy. Spine creased, slanted, torn across near base, cracked through between pp. 70-71, partly detached from text block. Some edge wear, scuffing, front cover torn along spine at top and bottom. Pages browned but text is unaffected. Reading copy. "It was the final round of the great Pour Amour perfume competition. All the contestants had to do was solve the last five riddles and a million dollars in prize money would be awarded. Then the contest ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1955-01-01
ISBN-13:9780670155255ISBN:067015525X
Description: Fair. Hardcover. Fair condition. First and last blank pages are torn out. Dustcover is missing. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding is solid. read more
Edition: Hinge & Corner crease/tan p/name Sticker
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780553028317ISBN:0553028316
Description: Acceptable. 0553028316 A Nero Wolfe Mystery-It was the final round of the Pour Amour perfume competition. All the contestsants had to do was solve the last five riddles and a million dollars in prize money would be awarded. Then the contest's creator was killed and the answers stolen from his wallet. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Book, New York, N. Y., U. S. A.
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780553028317ISBN:0553028316
Description: Good. No DJ Issued. Very good vintage paperback. cover shows minor wear. Nero WOLFE IN THE EARLY YEARS. Cover shows wear. 149 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1995-11-01
ISBN-13:9780553763041ISBN:0553763040
Description: Fair. Save some $$$. Perfectly Good Reading Copy. Collectible 1955 Viking printing-hardcover without jacket. Some foxing and stains on pages. No writing, no underlining, no highlighting. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
Edition: 11th Bantam Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553147971ISBN:0553147978
Description: Very Good. 6¾"-7¾" Tall. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, some scuffing along back of spine, light paper lifts near bottom of cover. Binding tight, text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "It was the final round of the great Pour Amour perfume competition. All the contestants had to do was solve the last five riddles and a million dollars in prize money would be awarded. Then the contest's creator was killed and the answers stolen from his wallet. It wasn't long before ... read more
"I enjoyed reading this vintage Nero Wolfe mystery that centered around a 1950's advertising campaign. I'd just completed one of the Nero Wolfe books by Robert Goldsborough (written after the death of Rex Stout)which was also set in the advertising world. It was fun to compare "vintage Wolfe" with the contemporary books. Goldsborough did a fine job---but there's nothing like an original Nero Wolfe mystery and Before Midnight is no exception."
"A five hundred thousand dollar prize is being offered by "Pour Amor" perfume. All the reader has to do is find the five cosmetic-using women described in a series of five quatrains. But then the author of the five quatrains ends up dead, and a paper containing the solution is missing. Nero Wolfe is hired--not to solve the murder--but to find out what happened to the paper. And for once, he and Cramer can work together amicably. A particularly good entry in this continuing series."
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