NMLP P-025557 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Silent Speaker

Rex Stout · Viking Press · 1946

Marks Stout's move from Farrar & Rinehart to Viking, which remained his first-edition publisher thereafter; the first full-length Nero Wolfe novel since before US entry into WWII. First printing bears no later-printing notation on the copyright page

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-025557 for "The Silent Speaker" by Rex Stout (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025557, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).