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The League of Frightened Men is the second Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. The story was serialized in six issues of The Saturday Evening Post (June 15–July 20, 1935) under the title The Frightened Men. The novel was published in 1935 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
- Rex Stout
- 1935
The League of Frightened Men is a 1937 American mystery film based on the 1935 novel of the same name, the second Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout. Directed by Alfred E. Green, the Columbia Pictures film stars Walter Connolly as Nero Wolfe, a role played by Edward Arnold in the previous year's Meet Nero Wolfe.
Apr 9, 2020 · The second and last film in this Columbia series based on the books by Rex Stout. Edward Arnold, who looked the part in MEET NERO WOLFE, gave way to Walter Connolly, with Lionel Stander (to the ...
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A 1937 mystery film based on a Nero Wolfe novel, about a group of Harvard alumni who are threatened by a crippled man. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, photos, and plot summary.
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- Mystery
- Alfred E. Green
- 1937-05-25
The League of Frightened Men, published both by the Saturday Evening Post (in serialization) and by Farrar & Rinehart in 1935, was Rex Stout’s second Nero Wolfe novel, appearing the year after Fer-de-Lance. It ranks as a personal favorite, for several reasons. First, the story’s pivotal figure, the quirky, brilliant, and depraved Paul Chapin,
Fifteen middle-aged men are frightened out of their wits that a former Harvard classmate is out to kill their group one-by-one. The former classmate was crippled in a hazing incident in college and the group of men has been haunted by it every since. Indeed, they call themselves the League of Atonement.
Sep 1, 2019 · League of Frightened Men was the second and last entry in Columbia’s short-lived mystery series based on the “Nero Wolfe” novels by Rex Stout. Taking over from Edward Arnold as crabby, corpulent consulting detective Nero Wolfe is Walter Connolly, who despite his physical resemblance to the Stout original is not all that well ...
