This book is fiction. No resemblance is intended between any character herein and any person, living or dead; any such resemblance is purely coincidental.

THREE DOORS TO DEATH

A Bantam Crime Line Book / published by arrangement with Viking Penguin

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Viking edition published January 1950

Mystery Guild edition published 1950

Included in Viking edition of Five of a Kind, The Third Nero Wolfe Omnibus published 1961

Bantam edition / June 1966

New Bantam edition / May 1970

Bantam reissue edition / March 1995

Acknowledgment is made to the American magazine, in which these three short novels originally appeared: “Man Alive,” December 1947; “Omit Flowers,” November 1948; and “Door to Death,” June 1949.

All rights reserved.

Copyright © 1947, 1948, 1949 by Rex Stout.

Copyright © renewed 1975 by Rex Stout.

Cover art copyright © 1995 by Tom Hallman.

Introduction copyright © 1995 by Jonathan Kellerman.

ISBN 0-553-25127-9