Where There's A Will (novel) - Publication History

Publication History

  • 1940, The American Magazine, May 1940, abridged as "Sisters in Trouble"
  • 1940, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, June 10, 1940, hardcover
In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of Where There's a Will: "Red cloth, front cover and spine printed with black; rear cover blank. Issued in a mainly black, white, and orange pictorial dust wrapper … The first edition has the publisher's monogram logo on the copyright page."
In April 2006, Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine estimated that the first edition of Where There's a Will had a value of between $4,000 and $7,500.
  • 1940, The Philadelphia Inquirer, a Gold Seal Novel, December 29, 1940, abridged
  • 1941, London: Collins Crime Club, March 17, 1941, hardcover
  • 1942, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1942, hardcover
  • 1944, New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, Bestseller Mystery #44, abridged as Where There is a Will, paperback
  • 1946, New York: Avon #103, 1946, paperback; photos can be found between pages 162 and 163
  • 1971, London: Tom Stacey, 1971, hardcover
  • 1992, New York: Bantam Crimeline ISBN 0-553-29591-8, 1992, paperback, Rex Stout Library edition with introduction by Dean R. Koontz
  • 1995, New York: Bantam Books ISBN 0-553-76301-6 March 1995, trade paperback
  • 2006, Auburn, California: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters ISBN 1-57270-551-5 October 28, 2006, audio CD (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
  • 2010, New York: Bantam ISBN 978-0-307-75635-0 May 26, 2010, e-book

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