The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

* 1886 – Rex Stout, American author ( d. 1975 )

In many of his detective novels, Rex Stout implies that his character Nero Wolfe was born in Montenegro, and gives some details of his early life in the Balkans prior to and during World War I.

Among its founding members were George Field, Dorothy Thompson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Herbert Bayard Swope, Ralph Bunche, Father George B. Ford, Roscoe Drummond and Rex Stout.

Writer Rex Stout, chairman of the Writers ' War Board and representative of Freedom House, would rebut the most entertaining lies of the week.

Still others, such as Rex Stout, Clayton Rawson, and Earl Derr Biggers, attempted a more " American " style.

* Rex Stout, creator of Nero Wolfe, the popular detective series

In his Nero Wolfe novel, Gambit ( 1962 ), Rex Stout famously depicted his erudite armchair detective burning pages from this edition in his fireplace because it sanctioned usages he disliked.

* The Nero Wolfe series of novels and short stories by Rex Stout.

* The first Nero Wolfe book is published by Rex Stout.

* Rex Stout – The League of Frightened Men

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* Rex Stout – Not Quite Dead Enough

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* Rex Stout – A Family Affair

* Rex Stout – Death of a Dude

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* Rex Stout – The Doorbell Rang

* Rex Stout – Death of a Doxy

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In 1950 and 1951, Greenstreet played Nero Wolfe on the NBC radio programme The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, based loosely on the rotund detective genius created by Rex Stout.

* The title of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novel Some Buried Caesar comes from one of the Tentmaker's quatrains ( FitzGerald's XVIII ), for example.

The OPA is featured, in fictionalized form as the Bureau of Price Regulation, in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mystery novel The Silent Speaker.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

* Rex Stout's The League of Frightened Men ( 1935 ), the second Nero Wolfe novel

However, the episode provided the plot for Rex Beach's best-selling novel The Spoilers ( 1906 ), which was made into a stage play, then five times into movies, including two versions starring John Wayne: The Spoilers ( 1942 film ) ( co-starring Marlene Dietrich ) and North to Alaska ( 1960, the theme of which mentions Nome.

Atwood is the birthplace of the writer Rex Beach, best known for his 1906 novel The Spoilers, which was made into a movie five times, most notably in 1930 starring Gary Cooper and in 1942 starring John Wayne.

* Rex Beach, novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player, whose most famous novel is commemorated by the walking / bike trail " Spoilers Run " ( see on Google Maps ))

* In Rex Stout's novel The Doorbell Rang, Nero Wolfe states: " Madam, I am neither a thaumaturge nor a dunce.

* The Anchorages and Chasms, noble families from Waugh's earlier novel Vile Bodies, are mentioned as the sort of people Rex would have liked at his wedding to Julia.

* Vertical ( novel ), a 2010 novel and sequel to Sideways written by Rex Pickett

The film accurately portrays the narrative within the novel, apart from two factors: firstly, the film's plot is more complicated than the novel, consisting of more flashbacks and a change in the film's character focus ; the second major difference involves the characters, Rex Hofman and Raymond Lemorne, who spend more time together following their meeting.

Based on a novel by Rex Hardinge, this movie featured George Curzon as Sexton Blake and Tony Sympson as Tinker.

* The Ahnenerbe, led by Sievers, and former Grand Master of the Thule Society, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, are portrayed as the driving force behind a secret holocaust of vampires in Nazi death camps in Juan Miguel de la Torre's novel Las Increíbles Aventuras de Rex Stark y el Holocausto Secreto.

* The Black Mountain, a 1954 Nero Wolfe mystery novel by Rex Stout

Two of the characters, Harry Rex Vonner and Lucien Wilbanks, later appear in Grisham's 2003 novel The Last Juror, which is set in Clanton in the 1970s.

Harry Rex Vonner also appears in the 2002 Grisham novel, The Summons, and in the short story " Fish Files ", in the 2009 collection Ford County.

Two more Lord Darcy novels, Ten Little Wizards ( 1988 ), and A Study in Sorcery ( 1989 ), were written by Garrett's friend Michael Kurland after Garrett's death — the two names manifestly modeled on those of famous detective novels by, respectively, Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, as that of Too Many Magicians was modeled on a famous novel by Rex Stout ( whose Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have counterparts in the novel's universe in the Marquis de London and his Special Investigator, Lord Bontriomphe ).

* The novel Anonymous Rex has the main character, Vincent Rubio, checking into the hotel at great expense after threatening the front desk clerk.

Harry Rex Vonner also appears in the novel The Summons, published in 2002, as an adviser of the protagonist Ray Atlee.

* Harry Rex Vonner-a lawyer who befriends Willie, helping him with various legal and moral issues throughout the novel.

His first novel, Anonymous Rex was published in 1999.