Viking, New York, 1958, BCE.  Hard cover, 442 pages.  Very good; red boards with black lettering on front, black lettering and decoration on spine.  Light corner and spine end wear, binding sound with headbands, green top-stain; deckled fore-edge with some age-spotting.  Dust jacket shows edge and cover and corner wear; age-spotting.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘This volume offers two of Rex Stout’s most popular novels – Some Buried Caesar, Too Many Women – and three of his characteristic “long-shorts,” collected in one convenient volume. … The three “long-shorts,” originally published in the volume called Trouble in Triplicate, are “Before I Die,” … “Help Wanted, Male,” … and “Instead of Evidence”. (from front flap)