NMLP P-025594 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Too Many Cooks

Rex Stout · Farrar & Rinehart · 1938

The US Farrar & Rinehart edition is the true first; a Collins (London) Crime Club edition appeared in September 1938 but the F&R is the accepted first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-025594 for "Too Many Cooks" by Rex Stout (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025594, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).