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Book 21 of Nero Wolfe. See all Nero Wolfe books in order
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Triple Jeopardy
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The Golden Spiders
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Last checked: September 25, 2026, against penguinrandomhouse.com

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Other books in Nero Wolfe

47 books listed so far

  1. Book 1: Fer-de-Lance
  2. Book 2: The League of Frightened Men
  3. Book 3: The Rubber Band
  4. Book 4: The Red Box
  5. Book 5: Too Many Cooks
  6. Book 6: Some Buried Caesar
  7. Book 7: Over My Dead Body
  8. Book 8: Where There's a Will
  9. Book 9: Black Orchids
  10. Book 10: Not Quite Dead Enough
  11. Book 11: The Silent Speaker
  12. Book 12: Too Many Women
  13. Book 13: And Be a Villain
  14. Book 14: Trouble in Triplicate
  15. Book 15: The Second Confession
  16. Book 16: Three Doors to Death
  17. Book 17: In the Best Families
  18. Book 18: Curtains for Three
  19. Book 19: Murder by the Book
  20. Book 20: Triple Jeopardy
  21. Book 22: The Golden Spiders
  22. Book 23: Three Men Out
  23. Book 24: The Black Mountain
  24. Book 25: Before Midnight
  25. Book 26: Three Witnesses
  26. Book 27: Might as Well Be Dead
  27. Book 28: Three for the Chair
  28. Book 29: If Death Ever Slept
  29. Book 30: And Four to Go
  30. Book 31: Champagne for One
  31. Book 32: Plot It Yourself
  32. Book 33: Three at Wolfe's Door
  33. Book 34: Too Many Clients
  34. Book 35: The Final Deduction
  35. Book 36: Homicide Trinity
  36. Book 37: Gambit
  37. Book 38: The Mother Hunt
  38. Book 39: Trio for Blunt Instruments
  39. Book 40: A Right to Die
  40. Book 41: The Doorbell Rang
  41. Book 42: Death of a Doxy
  42. Book 43: The Father Hunt
  43. Book 44: Death of a Dude
  44. Book 45: Please Pass the Guilt
  45. Book 46: Family Affair
  46. Book 47: Death Times Three

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