English language
Published Feb. 11, 2002
Trio for Blunt Instruments is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published in 1964 by the Viking Press in the United States and simultaneously by MacMillan & Company in Canada. The book comprises three stories:
"Kill Now—Pay Later", serialized in three issues of The Saturday Evening Post (December 9, 16 and 23–30, 1961) "Murder Is Corny", previously unpublished; the last Nero Wolfe novella to be written, and the last published in Stout's lifetime "Blood Will Tell", first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (December 1963)